Re: test have delay on first time on gd based terminals on native windows

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

----- Original Message -----
>From: sfeam <sf...@us...>
>To: gnu...@li...; Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tma...@ya...> 
>Cc: bma...@we...
>Date: 2017/8/18, Fri 00:40
>Subject: Re: test have delay on first time on gd based terminals on native windows
> 
>On Thursday, 17 August 2017 18:27:21 Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> This is not a bug but and an annoying matter.
>> 
>> On gnuplot 5 (5.0, 5.2, 5.3) on gd based terminals, test has delay for first try
>> 
>> set term png
>> set out 'test.png'
>> test # delay more than 30 seconds for me
>> 
>> 
>> second execution test does not take time
>> 
>> On gnuplot 4.6.7, delay does not happen.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Tatsuro
>
>My first guess is the delay comes from the system font cache
>as we have also seen for the wxt terminal.
>
>Try 
>    set term png font medium
>


Your guess seems to be right 


set term png font medium # dalay happened here
set out 'test.png'
test  # delay did not happen here

>That will force it to use an internal font rather than using obtaining
>one from the system.  If there is no delay, then it supports
>the idea that the system font cache is the problem.
>Of course that doesn't fix the problem, it only points to the cause.
>
>    Ethan

Tatsuro