Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis ?????:
>>From my previous message tonight:
>
>
>>Incidentally, having returned to the original autoexec.bat file, etc., the
>>computer required few efforts (even after it has been turned off and on)
>>to return to its original situation (with delays) in starting maxima. (At
>>the first few tests, no delays. Very strange!) This is strange after shut
>>down and restart.
>>
>>Maybe some Windows .ini file (I do not know) is influenced from the
>>installation of maxima. (I have also observed that the Maxima requires
>>more time to start in the first time after the computer is turned on.)
>
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> Next to my above comments, I am very confused to bring to your
> and the colleagues' attention that my computer (with no change in
> the autoexec.bat file any more, no special maxima.bat file, no new
> directory present, no care about MAXIMA-USERDIR any more,
> etc., etc.) and with the maxima file present in \maxima\maxima\bin
> directory returned again to the quick start/restart of Maxima without
> any action by me after my having worked a little with Maxima. This
> is extremely strange. I do not know what is happening in this switching
> between delays and lack of delays in starting Maxima.
>
> After my having written this paragraph, it returned back to delays.
> The computer "plays" in start/restart times between 3 sec, 10 sec
> and 20 sec without my control and a possibility for an empirical
> explanation by me. (Moreover, without shut down and restart.)
>
> That's my report.
>
> I cannot assume anything reasonable any more and it's too late
> in Greece.
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5 unless it
9pm and 5am ;-)
>
> Many sincere thanks and best regards,
>
> Nikos
>
My observations are very similar.
1) I don't see any start-up delay dependence on the
presence or absence of mxaima file.
2) After playing around with maxima and MAXIMA_USERDIR
start-up delay suddenly improved from 20 to 3 seconds.
But it is still longer than with set MAXIMA_USERDIR=AAA
- 1 second or even shorter.
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