On 04/01/2007 07:40 AM, James Knott wrote: > Richard Detwiler wrote: >> James Knott wrote: >>> NoOp wrote: >>> >>>> As others have mentioned, OOo has to check a lot more things than MS >>>> Office does due to the fact that it *is* a multi-platform office suite. >>>> If MS Office were a multi-platform office suite, I suspect that it >>>> would >>>> take just as long, or longer to start. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> You'd think that sort of thing could be determined at install and >>> appropriate adjustments made then. >>> For example, why would a Windows version have to check to determine what >>> OS it's running on every time it's run? Is there any chance it would >>> suddenly find itself on Linux or Mac? >>> >>> >>> >> >> That was my thought also, when I read this particular reason for OOo's >> slowness. >> >> Is this really true? That every time OOo starts, it has to do all of >> this hunting around to figure out what operating system it has been >> installed on? I'm not a programmer, but that seems quite bizarre. > > Also, why does it even have to check at all? There are different > packages for the different platforms. So I can see that the Windows > version might have to check for which version of Windows, but once it > has been installed, that shouldn't be an issue.
Ok, so that might have been one of my "what was I thinking" posts... :-) However, these issues are apparently being worked on, see: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Performance Being an open source application & project, I'm sure that the fine folks at OOo & Sun would appreciate any valid input/assistance :-) Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
