Hi Sophie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Oliver, all, > > I would like to have some information on the delay needed to correct or > enhance > performance issues for mailmerge in Writer. Please note : I'm not asking for a > solution in the next minutes :) > This is a real blocker for a lot of companies especially the ones that have a > quite important human resources department where mailings to all employees are > often requested and I need to give them an answer (or a hope ;). > > The first issue I'm talking about is this one, handled by Oliver : > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40827 > For several companies where it was possible, we have seen that disabling > Header&Footer for page style will help. Using the Mailmerge wizard makes the > merge process a bit faster also, but it is still unusable with more than 700 > records. > > If I look at the wiki page, there is in the todo a refactoring part, is it > this > part that will help to correct it and if yes, is it a long term (3.6) or mid > term (3.1)? Is there anywhere else I should look to get more info? The refactoring is not influencing this problem directly. According to Oliver the problem is that we can't clone documents in memory and so we have to store the document and load it again and again for each and every mail. We already have talked about that and I'm not convinced that the in-memory-cloning is impossible. I agree with you that "OOoLater" is the wrong target. The problem is severe enough to deserve at least a "3.x" target. Some simple math tells me that mail merge performance is unacceptable for every non-trivial document. I heard from Oliver that he doubts that we can fix it in a reasonable time frame - but IMHO this has to be proven (not guessed) before we turn it down. So at least a close investigation should be done. As it looks we can't do that for 3.0 but perhaps not too far away. It would be nice to know whether the n load times for n mails are the only major performance problem here. Perhaps someone could take the mail merge document, measure the time for the mail merge, measure the time for loading the document and storing it (at best an average value taken from several load procedures) and compares how much loading contributes to the bad performance. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
