On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:26:36AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > Still, I really liked the way lyx 1.3 starts in less than a second. > > Lyx 1.4 needs 5 seconds to start, even with no document and > > debugging turned off. > > You are probably compiling with g++'s debug iterators. Try recompiling > having configured with --disable-stdlib-debug and things should be an > order of magnitude faster. > With --disable-stdlib-debug and -O2 optimization, it still takes 3.6 seconds to start lyx-1.4 - without any document. Just to get the empty main window. This on a 1.8 GHz opteron, which compiles lyx way faster than an 2.4GHz pentium M does. Of course lyx started from cache, I started it several times in a row to rule out disk slowness.
No kind of document/paragraph problems - this is the startup time without a document. And probably not a qt problem either, as lyx 1.3 uses qt and starts in less than a second. _Editing_ with lyx 1.4 is fine, except from the occational bug. The startup time is not - it has definitely regressed, and I wonder if it has to be that way. What could lyx be up to _before_ l�oading documents? Helge Hafting
