ImageJ startup times -- Win2K & WinXP

Posted by Robert Baer on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Morphology-collection-update-new-IJ-Robot-plugin-tp3702367p3702368.html

For some time now it seems that the start-up time for imageJ is considerably
longer than it used to be when I first started using it.  I currently have
the WCIF version installed (at 1.37a), but the same seems to be true of the
standard ImageJ download.   For example, after double clicking on the
desktop icon for imageJ just now, it took about 45 seconds before the ImageJ
main panel appeared.  This example is from a 1.4 GHz Pentium with 768 Mb of
RAM running Windows 2000.  On faster machines this start-up penalty does not
disappear although I have not timed it to see exactly how long it takes.

I'm not certain if this is related to the Java virtual machine (version
1.5.0_06) or something else.  Are there some environmental variables that I
should check or something I could do to the configuration file to speed
start-up?  Should Java be pre-started in some manner?  Even if this is just
the norm and there is nothing I can do, I'd still like to understand what's
happening.

Thanks for any insights,

Rob
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Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
A. T. Still University of Health Science
800 W. Jefferson St.
Kirksville, MO 63501-1497 USA