I've been noticing a couple seconds lag at startup.. looked into it today, and the delay is coming from
local = gethostbyname(buff);
in UDP_Init. buff is Erics-MacBook-Pro.local. I guess the delay is coming from doing a DNS lookup on that.
This isn't a huge problem but just putting it up here.. not sure if it is OS X specific (I'm guessing not, looking at the code).
Maybe check spike's branch too.
Put a workaround in for this in r1403