2006/10/24, Kirill S. Palagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> -----Original Message----- > From: Johnny Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:04 PM > Someone said that MS Office is 10-100 times faster than > OpenOffice. I have Windows 98 (first edition) and > OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 on a 450 MHz Pentium 2 with 256 MB > SDRAM. A couple of years ago I had MS Office 97 installed and > I agree. Office 97 was at least 10 times faster on my > machine, probably 100 times is closer to the truth in my case Office 97 is faster in what? Starting, opening documents, accepting what you type? While OO is indeed slower when starting or opening documents, but it can not be 100 times.
I didn't measure it. About "10-100 times", I read it somewhere, but sadly I can't remember where, but it was an article about OpenOffice.org and Google somewhere. However 10-100 feels true when it comes to my own experience, but this is only my own feeling, which I did not verify with a stopwatch or something. On my system, mentioned above, MS Excel 97 took about 1.5 s to open when recently installed and about 6 s after using it for a couple of months. I think there is a file called something wierd that grows depending on what the user is doing. Starting up OpenOffice.org Calc 1.1.5 takes about 20 s, which is 13 times as long as 1.5 s but "only" 3 times as long as 6 s, so starting it up is an issue, but there are bigger ones. One of the most annoying thing I experienced was when I had a spreadsheet which I filled in every day. It was some kind of personal economy thing and it kept track on where my money went, and it was quite complicated. Long cell formulas, conditional formatting and things like that for maybe 20 columns and thousands of rows, at least 2000 as I remember it. I started it all with Excel before I even knew that there was such a thing as OpenOffice.org and most things worked well. To save the file took much less than a second and autofilter was rather fast as well, maybe a second or two for those 2000 rows. Later on I "migrated" to OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 and since then I upgraded to OpenOffice.org 1.1.5. I didn't notice any major differences in speed between those versions, but compared to MS Office 97 the difference was quite noticable. Saving that file took several seconds and autofiltering those 2000 rows took an eternity! First time I did it I thought that the whole thing froze. I don't remember exactly how long it took, but somewhere between 20 and 40 seconds, as far as I can remember. It felt like the Autofilter function was some kind of a Star Basic Macro. Maybe it is..? So maybe the difference in speed iis not 100 times, but definitely more than 10 in many cases. I also tried to install OpenOffice.org 2.0, I think it was 2.0.1 at that time, on my Windows 98 system. Opening the program was somewhat quicker than 1.1.5 I think, but not much. The Autofilter thing was even slower than 1.1.5but the worst thing was that whatever I did, simple things like to input data into a cell, there was a delay for every character I entered! It felt like typing in syrup or something.When I hit Enter, it felt like eternity before the operation was done, and now I am talking about SIMPLE tasks, like just entering a word or number in a cell. So I just went back to OpenOffice.org 1.1.5, which I find slow but not totally unuseable. However I no longer use that big spreadsheet I was talking about earlier, I try to keep things small now. Please don't misunderstand me here, I really like OpenOffice.org in many ways. It's a great suite, but speed is just not one of the advantages. I thing that this is something that needs to be taken care of. By the way, the article I mentioned above, suggested that Google in some way was going to be involved in the OpenOffice.org project. Do anyone here know something about that? It was an interview with some boss kind of guy at Google who talked about a lot of things, where the speed issue was one of them, and he said something that speed is something that is going to be looked into in the near future. Maybe someone else actually read this? It was a couple of months ago anyway. I am going to buy a new desktop soon and I will then give OpenOffice.org 2.0another chance, I promise... =) One of the reasons for me to upgrade is the database "Base". Johnny Andersson
