Re: Observations on the 4.6rc1 windows package

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

--- On Mon, 2012/2/27, Bastian Märkisch wrote:
> >>> I've fired up that virtual machine that produced that 5 minute delay
> >>> earlier. Some observations on several different builds:
> >>>
> >>> gp46rc1-win32-setup.exe from http://gnuplot.info/development/binaries/
> >>> (25-Feb-2012 07:19): a small (1-2 s) delay on startup.
> >>>
> >>> gp450win32-small-setup.zip from
> >>> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/ (2012-02-23, md5sum
> >>> feebe279501075f8806a04a4029f899c): No delay at all!
> >>>
> >>> gp450win32-setup.zip from the same location (2012-02-23, md5sum
> >>> 728918c93811f1644711c05fecaebd8f): several minutes of delay.
> >>>
> >>> I thought that if the delay is related to the initialization of the wxt
> >>> terminal, then setting the GNUTERM variable to "windows" may alleviate
> >>> the problem, but it didn't.
> >>>
> >>> Péter Juhász
> >>>
> >> One of the possibility is that the version of wxwidgets.  Now I am using wxwidgets-2.9.3.
> >> To be clear I have to rebuiild wxwidigts 2.8 and re-provide the binary.
> >> Now my condition is not so good, I cannot commit further at the moment.
> >>
> >> Sorry for inconvenience.
> >>
> >> Tatsuro
> >>
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I have downgraded wxWidgets from version 2.9.3 to 2.8.12 and built the recent cvs source.
> > http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/
> > gp450win32-setup.zip
> >
> > Please test this binary shows slow startup or not.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tatsuro
> >
> 
> Thanks for providing a new build so quickly! On my Vista machine your 
> (old) build with wxWidgets 2.9.3 takes ~6s to start up, whereas the 
> build with wxWidgets 2.8.12 takes only 0.7s. This is exactly the same 
> time it takes for my own build to start up (wxWidgets 2.8.11).
> For the moment, I would thus suggest to stay with 2.8 for a 4.6 release 
> build.
> 
>    Bastian

Hello

Thank you for immediate test.  I will use wxWidgets 2.8.12 for the moment.

Thank you for all who found and commit the slowness issue. 

Regards

Tatsuro