Re: Observations on the 4.6rc1 windows package

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:22, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
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> Mojca Miklavec reported earlier that wxWidgets 2.9 has problems on OSX.

However it works now - after some patches have been applied to gnuplot
(or maybe I should double check that the patches are indeed in sources
and not just on my computer).


Before claiming differences in startup speed, please double check
something that definitely has a huge influence. I think that wxWidgets
use fc-config and when one first starts the program, it will always
take a considerable amount of time to build font caches (it has to
scan all fonts in C:\Windows\Fonts and possibly some others). So it
might be that whenever one tested the new build with wxt 2.9, it was
only rebuilding caches and the second run would be faster, while the
caches for gnuplot with wxt 2.8 were already present and thus gnuplot
start was faster. This problem should not occur on linux and mac and
you cannot get rid of it on windows unless you rewrite some code from
wxt or configure fontconfig in a different way (but then users might
just as well start complaining that the new fonts don't work in
gnuplot).

Mojca