OpenOffice.org Performance

[James Knott]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> At 16:07 02/11/2003 -0500, Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) wrote:
> 
>> Le 2 Novembre 2003 09:29, James Knott a écrit :

>> > I recently installed OO0-1.1, and it's still slow loading.
>>
>> Yes, loading is slow. (As is MS office)
> 
> 
> That has not been my experience. I timed how long it took for the 
> application to be ready to use with my watch with a second hand on the 
> same computer:
> 
> MS Word: 3 seconds
> 
> OpenOffice Write: 16 seconds
> 
> OO is so slow to even load a splash screen that the only way that I can 
> tell that something is happening is with all the disk activity.

I just check mine and the 1st Writer load after a boot takes about 15 
seconds.  After that, less than 5.

I had read elsewhere, about preloading something, but I don't recall the 
details or where I saw it.

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