[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60984] Load function on Windows is significantly slower than on Linux

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #60984 (project octave):

First, this doesn't seem like a bug report at all. But to answer your
questions:

1. Yes, binary vs text mode performance is well known both in Octave and
elsewhere. In particular, "save -binary" is much faster to save and load
afterwards, so use it unless you have a very strong reason to save as plain
text format. Everything else in plain text will bloat for obvious reasons (it
needs one byte per digit, so a number like 200 will need 3 bytes in plain text
and only 1 in binary; also plain text formats use whitespace between
numbers).

2. Re why is something slower on Windows than on Linux, there are too many
variables at play and none of them are Octave-specific. Are you running an
antivirus on Windows, even just Microsoft Defender? Is Windows running a file
search indexing service like it often does? If you can disable file indexing,
does your application speed improve?

Please consider the Octave discussion forum in future as well for questions
like this.

Close as Invalid since this isn't an Octave bug?

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