Re: [Gretl-devel] sluggish on winxp

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(a)wfu.edu&gt; 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. > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-devel mailing list > Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel >