Re: [Gretl-users] First time to plot a series after installation of gretl
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Hélio Guilherme wrote:
>
> It is a known issue. It only happens on the first plot,
> because gnuplot is loading to memory.
>
> Does it takes more than, let's say, a minute? That would be
> strange and we should give a better look into.
Just thinking out loud, really: I don't really know what gnuplot
does on its maiden voyage, but whatever it is, couldn't we ask
gnuplot to do a "dry run" as part of the gretl installation
process?
I'll take a look at this, but some more data would be helpful.
Can we determine the precise condition for gnuplot taking an
exceptionally long time on Windows? Is it (a) a new installation
of the gretl package, or is it just (b) the first invocation of
gretl plotting in a given Windows session ("session" = period from
booting Windows to halt or reboot)?
Helio's "loading to memory" suggests (b), but Yinung's observation
seems to be that (a) is the problem case.
Allin