Hello, I've opened the same session file on ubuntu 13.04 and windows xp (virtualised on Ubuntu) and while on windows the session file is opened almost instantly on ubuntu it takes almost 2 minutes and the CPU is at 100%. is this a normal behavior? Mihai ps: if necessary I can attached the session file

with Gretl updated to the last CVS build (hall an hour ago) no change for the opening period on Ubuntu (almost 2 minutes).

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, cociuba mihai wrote: > > Hello, >> I've opened the same session file on ubuntu 13.04 and windows xp >> (virtualised on Ubuntu) and while on windows the session file is opened >> almost instantly on ubuntu it takes almost 2 minutes and the CPU is at >> 100%. is this a normal behavior? >> Mihai >> >> ps: if necessary I can attached the session file >> > > Mihai sent me the session file (too big for the list), and the problem lay > with reading back big matrices stored as XML. Our method was too slow. This > is now speeded up greatly in gretl CVS and the new code will go into the > snapshots shortly. (Actually I'm not sure why the read was much faster on > Windows, maybe there are some highly optimized string functions in the > C library.) > > Allin Cottrell >