Cream slow to start up

[Matti Picus]

I love gvim and use it at work on a Linux system with no connection to 
the outside world. My coworkers laugh at copy-paste cycles that involve 
<mark>ya <move>i<cntrl-x>" and <cntrl-x><cntrl-o> code completion, but I 
consistently code-compile-debug faster than they can using eclipse.

I thought OK, let's setup vim to be more user friendly so I can do 
advocacy. This led me to using cream.

I installed it ( 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cream/cream-0-38-gvim-7-0-152.exe ) 
on a windows computer to test, but found cream and its installation of 
vim both very slow to start up, on the order of 10s of seconds, about 
the same time as a network timeout. Is this reasonable? Is there some 
kind of "call home" in the startup files? A clean installation of vim 
7.0 from source on the same machine does not have this problem.