On Saturday 17 February 2007 12:02, David Brodbeck wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > OpenOffice/Writer requiring like 80 MB and quite some time to load up. > > SMO is on the boat with roughly 7 MB, and well, I don't > > have any numbers for MSO (a lack of `pmap` on Windows), but given that > > it starts up as fast on a 16 MB RAM Win98 machine as OOO does on a > > multi-CPU opteron, I think that tells enough. > > MS Office pre-loads a fair amount of stuff at system boot, IIRC. So > you're trading off longer boot time and more idle memory consumption > for shorter application start up time. It also kind of depends on what > version of MS Office you're using. Word 2003 seems to take about as > long to load as OpenOffice Writer, for me, on machines with similar > resources. If you're running Office on Windows 98, you're probably > comparing an older, smaller version of MS Office to a newer version of > OpenOffice. Both applications have gotten bigger over time as they > became expected to do more.
Yes, they have. I have Office 97 on some machines and Office XP on this machine (under CX Office) and Office 2003 on a few machines, while I have that abomination Office 2007 on one test machine. (Yuck!) They all appear to load faster than OOo because they - well - load in memory when the Window manager (XP/2k/2K3) loads. You can do the same thing with OOo on KDE. I have the OpenOffice Quickstarter loaded on startup. It doesn't seem to take much in time to load overall and only takes about 30MB of RAM. On all my systems, I have at least 1GB or more of RAM so 30MB is not a big deal. (Still don't know what to do with all those 256K and 512K SIMM cards I have lying around...) I just checked on my laptop and OOo Writer took three seconds to load. > > Sometimes I get nostalgic for the days when documents didn't have to be > so fancy. I still remember when it was socially acceptable to buzz out > a business report in 12-point Elite on a dot-matrix printer, rip off the > tractor-feed tracks, and turn it in. ;) I miss that cool noise! -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
