Re: [Gretl-users] First time to plot a series after installation of gretl

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. ~Peter On 7/13/2010 5:40 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > > > _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users