Startup times on Windows



Vadim V. Zhytnikov ?????:
> Some more weird statistics on startup times.
> 
> Windows Me on Celeron 500Mhz with 256Mb RAM:
>    Start 3 sec, restart 2 sec.
> 
> Windows XP on Athlon XP 1700+ with 512Mb RAM:
>    Start 5 sec, restart 4 sec.
> 
> Same machine (not similar but literally the same,
> this is multiboot machine with several OS'es)
> but with Windows Me:
>    Start and restart more than 20 sec. Restart
>    may be even timed out.
> 

I also tried old Maxima 5.5 on this especially
troublesome Windows Me installation.
Start time is less than 1 second, so definitely
there is some strange point in either xmaxima
script or Tcl/Tk Windows implementation.

> Windows 98SE and Windows XP on Pentium III 733MHz
> with 384Mb RAM:
>   Start and restart times 2-5 seconds. Win 98 a bit
>   slower.
> 
> Notice that on _all_ machines and OS'es maxima.bat
> starts almost instantly. I
> 
> 


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      Vadim V. Zhytnikov

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