Re: [Gimp-user] Idea/Request: Fast start mode for GIMP

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

On April 1, 2016 1:26:14 AM GMT+02:00, Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com> wrote:
> Before the devs chime in... Normally Gimp will not re-register plug-ins
> (and so not execute them) if the file timestamp of the executable file 
> has not changed since the previous registration). So on Linux Gimp 
> startup times are good. But this seems to be broken on Windows.

There is a known delay when reading scripts, ever since Unicode support was added to Script-Fu,  IIRC. 

But to my knowledge there is nothing that would suggest broken pluginrc handling. 

Note that we do know next to nothing about the current case yet.