Re: startup time

[Levente Torok]

On Thursday 11 September 2008, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 11-Sep-2008, Levente Torok wrote:
> 
> | Sorry. Local disk only certainly.
> 
> As I'm not seeing this kind of performance problem, I think you will
> have to do a little digging on your system to find the cause.
> 
> Are you adding an unusually large number of directories to your load
> path (something like "addpath (genpath ("/somedir"))" where "/somedir"
> has thousands of subdirectories?
> 
> Do you have directories in the load path that contain large numbers of
> files (thousands or tens of thousands or more)?

Well, I just installed octave forge. 
Which is a normal usage pattern I guess.
So the path is like this:
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/home/lev/bin/octave                                                            
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Lev

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