Re: Plotting with 3.2.0 on Windows is SLOOOOOOWWWW

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

--- Matthias Brennwald  wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Dear all
> 
> I promised to confirm my versions of Windows XP. I have Windows XP 
> Professional on both of my machines (VirtualBox on Apple MacBook and a 
> Pentium-4). In the meantime I upgraded the memory of the Pentium machine 
> from 256 MB to 4 GB, but this did not help much with the slowness.

This issue comes from task scheduling between the parent (octave ) and child 
(gnuplot) processes. T
The cpu of my computer in university is pentium with hyper threaded. It has a 
two logical core so that
task scheduling problem is not sever.   

>  From the posts by Tatsuro, John and Olli I take that there is an issue 
> related to the process priorities in Octave/gnuplot on Windows. So I 
> guess it was not me doing something wrong...

Thank you for your reporting the issue.  Your post have revealed an important 
points for octave for
windows.  

> Thanks for the great support!

I have not enough time to try the proposal of the Olli but until this week end 
I will try and report
here.  The modification will be implemented in the next release of octave for 
windows.

Regards

Tatsuro

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