Re: Fw: Unusual slowness with octave 2.1.42 for windows

[Paul Kienzle]

Bob Bailey wrote:

> I have been using 2.1.42 for a couple of months and recently
> downloaded and installed Cygwin/Octave 2.1.49.
> Previously I used 2.1.36 for a month or two.
>
> The 42 version takes a long time to start up on my two
> PIII/Windows 98se machines, but comes up fast on a
> PIII/Windows 2000 machine.  None are running Novell.
>
> The two 98se machines have Norton Works/Firewall installed,
> but disabling makes no difference.  None has Novell.
>
> Also both the 42 and 49 versions of Octave take a long time
> (30 to 40 seconds) to respond to basic commands on the 98se
> machines.
Basic commands which happen to fork another process.  Again,
   page_screen_output = 0
will help.  Yes it does make it awkward to use.

>  For example,
> dir or help XXX.  Also the 49 version pops up a half dozen
> "This program has executed an illegal operation at .." messages.
> But, it continues to run (if you call it running).  It does not shut
> down.
One popup for each oct-file loaded.  Stick with 2.1.42
or build with --disable-shared --enable-static.  You
may also want to try replacing occurrences of fork/exec
with spawn.  Some of these involve pipes.

> The 42 version on the Win 2000 machine does not have the
> command delay.  The 49 version is not installed on the Win 2000
> machine.
>
> To start the 49 ver, I double click on the Cygwin desktop icon,
> then type octave.  I tried starting octave from Windows Explorer
> by double clicking on drive:\Cygwin\bin\octave-2.1.49.exe,
> but that just locks up the computer, necessitating a reboot.
It is possible to set up a clickable icon, much like the 2.1.42 version
made by Andy Adler.

Paul Kienzle
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