[Qgis-developer] Processing causes major slowness at QGIS startup

[Luca Manganelli]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Régis Haubourg
<regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> interesting issue.
> More generaly, startup speed starts to be an issue here, and plugins take
> more than half the time of global startup.

Right. If we remove all of those plugin, QGIS is much faster to start.

> Do we have tips for plugin authors to speed up python loading?

Yes, they should move the big code from init() to initGUI().

They should remember that the code in init() is ALWAYS executed, even
with that plugin "disabled" from the list.