__/ [ Scott W ] on Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:02 \__
> spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Scott W <d38dm8nw81k1ng@xxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>
>>>did the latest release of OpenOffice.org (2.0.2-r2) sort out the speed
>>>issues that people were complaining about or is it just me? when i
>>>installed OOo on gentoo on my box (from source) i tried running it this
>>>morning to check how fast it loaded up. i got a time of 4 seconds to
>>>load OOo writer! is anyone running a slightly older version that can
>>>test this for me?
>>
>>
>> It's not that simple. For the comparison to mean anything it'd have to be
>> done on the same hardware. Disk speed, FSB speed, CPU Speed, cpu load and
>> disk load, etc all play a part.
>
> i wasn't asking for a perfect comparison, just see what times people
> got. if they were around the same time. if you must know i'm running an
> AMD sempron @ 1.8GHz (2400+ iirc) and 512MB RAM with a (fairly) minimal
> gentoo install under xfce with thunderbird running. that should be
> enough to get an idea of the speed i'd imagine. i'm just curious to see
> if it's my setup or if openoffice genuinely did get faster in the latest
> update.
It takes me /much/ longer than 4 seconds upon the initial launch, but then
again, nothing is preloaded (e.g. shard libraries) and I am using* the beta
version, which means it has all the debugging/bug reporting bits built-in,
tightly integrated into the code**.
Roy
*I never truly use OpenOffice (I prefer LaTeX), but I took it for a test
drive a few times.
**The notorious comparison between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice was
conducted on _Windows_, with Office optimisation in tact (e.g. preloaded
libraries), and the debugging bits in OpenOffice (not finalised at the
time).
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/01/11/office-comparison/
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