Re: [Gretl-users] First time to plot a series after installation of gretl
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, peter wrote:
On Windows XP (AMD 3000+, 2.16Ghz, with 1.5g memory) (through SP2) I
find this to be the case only after a reboot.
Open GRETL (1.91cvs)
Open a data set
Click on a series
Ask for a time-series graph
10s to display
Close GRETL and repeat: <1s.
Thanks for the info. This narrows the issue down. One more
question: how does the start-up time for gretl itself compare
depending on whether it's the first invocation since booting
Windows, versus closing gretl and restarting it? Is that
difference less extreme than for a gnuplot graph?
Oh, and another experiment people could try, if they have the
patience: what about the start-up time for wgnuplot.exe (the
executable is in the gretl installation directory), independent of
gretl? I'm thinking that the time to place a gretl/gnuplot graph
on the screen is not all "gnuplot time": gnuplot is called to
generate a PNG file, which gretl then displays using GTK/GDK, and
the load time for the relevant GTK modules may be a factor.
Allin