Hi Andrew, > Base is slow - how much more information from the user community do you need > on that piont?.
"Accumulated annoyance", expressed in votes for issues, is a good indicator (the more since such a generic task as "improve performance" can only be addressed stepwise, so we need to set priorities). Numbers are always a good thing. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Logging_JDBC_Activity contains a description how to log activities in the JDBC bridge of OOo, which allows to get numbers for a certain class of problems. (And sometimes it even allows to find reasons.) Besides that, and responding to your suggestions in your other mail in the thread: I believe that systematic performance tests/evaluations need more background on the topic than I currently have. Saying that action X needs Y seconds to finish is probably useless without describing the environment in a defined, reproducible way. This doesn't mean numbers themselves are useless (if Y is (even only felt to be) large enough, then it should be investigated), but a systematic approach might need more than this. > Startup time is bad Here, we probably should distinguish between a "cold start" (which requires starting the JVM) and a hot start. Nonetheless, numbers and an issue are helpful. > Copy / Paste as a means to transfer data into Base is horrendous Ehm - yes. Not sure if there exists an issue for this, yet. > I have not seen anything coming from the development community to make me > think that it is being addressed, but I bet it is. Not strictly, ATM. You can see at http://eis.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/cws.ShowCWS?logon=true&Id=3218 that there was a time were addressing those was considered a high priority, but we somehow lost it from the radar with a lot of other important changes happening ... > The enhancements to Base since the initial release have been important, but > at some point someone in the development group needs to address the > performance issues directly. Yes. I'm biased how near we are to that point - for judging this, the above-mentioned accumulated annoyance might be an indicator. Thanks & Ciao Frank -- Frank Schönheit StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Base [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 40 23 646 663 / +66663 Sun Microsystems Germany Hamburg, Nagelsweg 55 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
