From 122ed08d72265e3abb02c48c4be804d793058fc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Rinn <rinni@inventati.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:22:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Run OpenMP once before calling tesseract (fixes: #285)

---
 gtk/src/main.cc | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gtk/src/main.cc b/gtk/src/main.cc
index a2668e45..9fec77a5 100644
--- a/gtk/src/main.cc
+++ b/gtk/src/main.cc
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
 	}
 #endif
 
+    // Run OpenMP once before tesseract is called, otherwise it might be
+    // _very_ slow, see https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader/issues/285
+    // Sleep 1 millisecond to prevent being optimized out.
+    #pragma omp parallel for schedule(static)
+    for(int i = 0; i < 1; i++) { sleep(1); }
+
 	std::string localeDir = Glib::build_filename(pkgDir, "share", "locale");
 
 	bindtextdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, localeDir.c_str());