[SciPy-user] MATLAB start-up

[Travis Oliphant]

eric jones wrote:
>>Eric is right.
>>Matlab takes a very long time to start-up (MUCH longer than importing
>>scipy on my machine). 
> 
> 
> Hmm.  That doesn't bode well for us being able to speed it up using some
> magic trick.  On the bright side though, MS Word used to take forever to
> load.  The recent version loads extremely fast.  

Isn't this because they load the DLL's at boot up time?   I don't know 
if we could pull something like that as easily.

I think Pearu's idea has some merit.  Perhaps we should think about 
making scipy wide instead of deep.  This would also allow people to use 
parts of scipy more easily.

-Travis O.