EXTREME slowdown

[Brian Doty]

The Define command automatically loops thru time.  So you are doing
multiple requests to the server (one request for each time) which
takes longer given the overhead.  Fixing this is on our to-do list...
Brian

On Feb 16, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Stefan Gofferje wrote:

> I want to draw some temperature & windchill graph with gradsdods. The
> whole thing runs on an Athlon XP2000+ as a test machine.
> For testing, I sdfopen the file by hand and after loading, I start the
> following script which needs about 30 seconds before any graphics is
> produced. Does grads precalculate the formulas for the whole grid or
> where does the long pause comes from?