--- "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> wrote:
> I'm also puzzled to extremes but I can only confirm
> these results with some little correction.
> Simple .bat file
>
> set MAXIMA_USERDIR=<XXX>
> xmaxima.exe
>
> dramatically improves start-up time
> from 20-30 to 1 second. The correction
> ist that <XXX> may be _any_ _nonempty_
> string - ABC, FOO - anything does the trick!
>
> Vadim V. Zhytnikov
Confirmed, Windows 98. The following all changed startup time to
nearly nil:
set MAXIMA_USERDIR=AAA
set MAXIMA_USERDIR="C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.9.0.rc4"
set MAXIMA_USERDIR="C:\Windows"
Even more amazing however, the following also resulted in short startup
times:
set MAXIMA_USERDIR=""
I got long startup times only when I used:
set MAXIMA_USERDIR=
I was able to switch back and forth between long and short startup
times by using the above commands.
So it seems that, regardless of the number of files in subdirectories,
or even whether it has a character, what matters is that the variable
be set to something. Even "" worked. Weird.
CY
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