Re: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows

[Paul Kienzle]

Steven D Ratts wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  It will
> eventually return and the results appear to be normal, but the lockups make
> the system almost complete unusable.
Putting the following in your .octaverc helps:

   page_screen_output = 0

> Is there anything that might possibly be in my environment or configuration
> that could result in such extraordinary slowness?  No other machine I've
> installed the windows version of octave on has behaved like this one, but
> this is the one I've got for my desktop machine in my office, so I'd really
> like it to run normally.
Your other machines are not running windows 9x.

>  BTW, this laptop is running Windows 98, if that
> matters.
It does.  Fork works very poorly for me in Windows ME.
Yes it freezes the mouse on startup, and whenever I start
a separate application, such as texinfo or less or gnuplot.
It's worse if you compile with --enable-shared because
then it gives you a scary sounding but harmless error box
that you have to click away for _every_ loaded oct-file.

I tried to make a more minimal example by extracting just the
src/system.c file from octave and compiling its builtin
test function, but it doesn't produce such bad behaviour as
octave.  It's also not 7 megabytes either, which might have
something to do with it.

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden




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