David B Teague wrote: > Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> I just installed OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 on my Ubuntu 8.10 system. Before >> I did that I read about what's new and things like that. It was >> interesting to see that they finally did something about at least some >> speed issues, so I was looking forward to install it and see if it >> feels faster. >> >> However, fixing a few speed issues doesn't necessary mean that there >> are no speed issues left, so I tried something that I tried years ago, >> which was slow back then. Unfortunately I don't remember HOW slow it >> was then and I used another computer then too. >> >> So now I'm asking others to test this too, and tell me if you agree >> with me that this could be done a lot faster. If you have Excel, it >> would be interesting if you converted it to Excel format and did the >> same test in Excel. >> >> Test what? Ok, I'll come to the point. >> >> First download this test document: >> http://hem.bredband.net/guraknugen/TestfileAutofilter.ods >> >> It's about 500 kB so it will take some time to download with a slow >> connection. >> Don't worry about what's in the file. Most of the words there are fake >> (created with a random name macro also included in that file - you >> don't need that macro in this test though). >> >> There are a bit more than 2000 rows and what I want you to do is to >> use the autofilter function. >> For example I did this: >> Click the autofilter button in the ”Till” column, which is column I. >> Select the first thing in the list: ”Adindy” (yes, it's a fake word >> and means nothing - if it does in some language, it's a coincidence). >> This took about 18 seconds on my computer! >> Selecting All took about 15 s. >> >> One strange thing is that I tested this again now, after downloading >> the file from the address mentioned above, and now it's a lot faster: >> 8 seconds for ”Adindy” and about 3 seconds for All. >> >> Still, this is only about 2000 rows. 65536 rows shouldn't take more >> than a second or so. >> And selecting all sheet and then select ”Show” is a lot faster than >> then selecting All from the Autofilter thing. >> >> I was going to file a but report (speed issue) about this, but I want >> to hear other's opinions first. >> >> 1.6 GHz dual core, 2.0 MiB RAM, OpenOffice 3.1.0, Ubuntu 8.10. >> > 1.6 GHz Sempron 2800, 333 MHz backplane, 1 GB RAM, OO.o 3.1.0 Windows > XP SP3 > With OO.o not in memory, it takes 30 seconds to load OO.o to start an > empty odt document. That is about twice as long as 3.0.1 took. > However, once OO.o is in memory, opening an existing 50 K odt document > takes 3 to 4 seconds. > > I believe 3.1.0 startup with OO.o not in memory is just too slow. > > I fetched the file you link to above. My system takes about 15 seconds > to start OO.o and load this spread sheet with OO.o in memory. I have > no basis for comparison with OO.o 3.0.1 for I do not use spreadsheets. > > On my system with OO.o 3.1.0 in memory: > > autofilter on Adindy on column I takes about 6 seconds > "all" filter takes about 3 seconds > > I hope this is useful to you. > > David Teague > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > > To Users: Of what real improvement is 3.1 over KAMI'S enhanced 3.0.1, which includes templates and graphics that I have not heard 3.1 has? Would it not be better to wait and see if KAMI comes out with an enhanced version of 3.1, if he does? :-\
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