Paul B. wrote:
Mike Fedyk wrote:
Paul B. wrote:
I'm not sure what's supposed to be achieved by running Quickstart in the background. When I ran it it took up some 48K of memory, as I recall, and loading documents was none too fast.
I just noticed that, not using Quickstart, I can keep an instance of swriter open (it's listed under Task Manager as Soffice.exe) and only incur a 1.4K memory hit. And opening documents is instantaneous.
So I fail to see the purpose of Quickstart, especially as it has no context menu functions.
Then you must be using version 1.9.xx.
First of all, if you always keep OOo running with one or more files, you won't see much difference. If you tend to close all OOo windows before opening more, then the quickstart will help.
The quickstart is to keep OOo in memory when you aren't using it, and it works until it has been swapped out where it is up to the OS to page it back into memory from swap. The advantage is that OOo does not have to re-initialize every time you open a document, but if you have a fast machine, you might not notice the difference.
I could go into more detail, but I don't feel like writing a long message right now.
Mike
Yes, my sig states which version I run. And I have a basic understanding that QS loads the OO core into memory. Maybe then it is because my machine is fast that I never saw too much difference from running QS - though I must say that even with a 3G processor, and 1G of memory, OOo opened very slowly, QS or not.
Do you notice a speedup when you open and close document windows one after another?
After you load OOo and start using the program, it should be quick after that, is that what you see?
This is a subjective judgment: while not using QS, no.
I stopped using QS because I couldn't see any appreciable difference in load time, its memory footprint was enormous, and because its context menu offered no advantages.
Now that I find keeping a Writer window open costs so little memory, I plan on using that as my "QS".
Paul
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