Hi Michael,
Michael Adams wrote:
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Running OpenOffice.org effectively loads the program (soffice.exe) which
holds most of the instruction code for Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and
Base. It is effectively the same as starting Word, Excel, Powerpoint,
Access and Visio at the same time (which are all seperate programs).
Once Writer is started note how quick a Calc sheet opens (given enough
memory space).
Sorry but this is simply a common prejudice that totally ignores the
effort that is made inside OpenOffice.org to load certain functionallity
only when needed and ignores the fact that Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw,
etc. do share lots of common functionality which makes even the sum of
using them all together different than the sum of starting separate
developed applications that do not have one but multiple implementations
for something which could have been done identically in them.
Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_library
and than consider that OpenOffice.org uses technologies like "Shared
Libraries" and "dynamic loading" which are described on that page and
than you will see that your statement is just simply plain wrong. Calc
specific stuff for example on a Windows installation is in sc680mi.dll
not in soffice.exe and that library is only dynamically loaded when you
open a spreadsheet document. Just because you have a menu from where you
can open all kinds of document doesn´t mean that every functionality
that the modules of which OpenOffice.org consists can offer is loaded
when you start soffice.exe.
Also OO.o will boot quicker if the quickstarter is turned on and running
on your task bar.
MS Word does not have native versions for several of the OS's
mentioned.
Given all the above info benchmark testing results would hardly be fair.
Kind regards,
Bernd Eilers
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