Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011

At 8:24am -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Gordon Burgess-parker wrote:
> On 11/02/11 13:03, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> > 1. Improve the loading speed.
> > 20. Once more: faster loading.
>
> I really don't know how they can say that.

Because they don't know how to eloquently say that the quickstarter is a 
no-go.  The name "quickstarter" is a misnomer.  It should be 
"preloader", because that's what it actually does.  (But that doesn't 
sound as sexy, I know.)  How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of 
memory effectively sitting idle.  That doesn't work.  Many of us in the 
computing, engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our 
computational resources.

> On Windows 7, Open Office 3.3 loads a new Writer document (with
> Quickstarter enabled) almost INSTANTANEOUSLY,  [...]

> How fast do they WANT it to load? Both those times compare VERY
> favourably with MS Office and in fact on Windows OO is FASTER then MS
> Office for the above reason.

The short answer is that the quickstarter doesn't count: I want it to 
load as fast or faster than MSO /without/ the quickstarter.  MSO can do 
it, from a cold boot, fast.  Why can't LO?

Cheers,

Kevin

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