I saw this myself. The first chart takes up to 3 seconds to display on a brand new computer. From then on it's almost instantaneous.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> it seems to me that gretl on windows is not as "snappy" as it used to
> be. I'm referring at least to 1.8.7 and the current snapshot, not sure
> when I started seeing the behavior, as I work with gretl more often on
> Linux.
>
> I experience short but annoying delays when windows are opened and stuff
> like that. I'm guessing the GTK toolkit is responsible -- I seem to
> remember that an updated version has been used by gretl recently?

I don't have XP to test on any more, but I do test on Vista from
time to time. What I notice is that gretl is a bit "gummy" at
start-up (and gnuplot graphs take a while to come up at first),
compared to under Linux on the same machine. I assume this is an
OS thing ("security" checks?). Windows itself is very slow to
start compared to Linux. But once the program has been running for
a while the responsiveness seems pretty similar on the two
platforms.

Allin.
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