On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 19:56 +0300, Kirill S. Palagin wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:37 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck > > Once OO is loaded to shmfs on ram, all subsequent loads of OO > > is almost instantaneous. I don't understand where you are > > First of all, cold start is as important as start from cache, because > cold start is first experience the user gets.
I completely agree with you. First impression is EXTREMELY important and this needs attention in OO. I mostly use Staroffice 8.0 and I have observed that its start time after cold boot is lesser than the corresponding start time of OO. I have no idea what Sun is doing to achieve this. > > Secondly, even for warm OO start to be fast you have to have fast CPU, > because it is not just disk access what affects it. I would still argue that that large ram significantly affects warm OO startup time. Disk access is orders of magnitude slower than memory access. The difference between startup time on a fast CPU and a slow CPU should not be orders of magnitude different. > > > getting this "MSO on Windows starts faster than OO in Linux" > > stuff from. I tested it on my > > 2.5 year old machine and OO takes about 2 seconds to load. > > Fast hardware compensates lack of optimization? Stating the obvious: eventually with limited developer cycles available for OO development, I think spending more time adding features is more important than reorganizing the OO code so that it becomes more efficient. From a business perspective, getting the product to a point where it is feature compatible with MSO is significantly more important for SUN than optimizing code. Though this sounds short sighted, I guess this fits into the current thinking in the industry "Don't fix if it ain't broken". Bottom line, when one is making a business decision, I guess fast hardware does compensate for lack of optimization, at least for the time being. > > Not everybody can afford the latest and greatest. Does SUN consider this group a source of revenue from support etc. I don't think so and hence the lack of attention. -G PS: though OO is open source, I believe sun invests a lot of developer resources into this project to do what is good for their business. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
