[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's an interesting debate going on at ZDNet about resource usage
in Oo 2.0 It would be great if you guys put in your 2 cents...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=119
The author of this article went out of his way to create a spreadsheet
that would perform badly under OOo.
The reason it takes so long to load is that the XML for each cell has to
be parsed by OOo.
Microsoft's xls format is a binary format - loading and saving are
literally just memory moving operations. That's why they can open a file
in 1 second - there's no processing involved at all - the contents of
the file are simply dumped into memory, and that's that.
I've heard that Microsoft's XML format also has binary elements, so
they'd also be getting performance benefits over OOo in cases where the
format is binary. Lastly, Excel is most likely not checking the validity
of each element of the file.
That's my thoughts on the matter. Posting comments to the website is
broken, so I'd say the M$ fanboy has done this to prevent more OOo users
from questioning the validity of his claims based on this extreme test
case. Obviously most documents open quite fast, and he would know this,
but chose to present a case where OOo was quite slow, and made this the
focus of the article. Pretty dodgy stuff, but it's Microsoft we're
dealing with here.
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