<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 22 May 2008, at 00:07, James Roberts wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">Time to open Win OOo Writer (2.4):<br><br>- Average over ten trials: 2.4 sec (no tray preloader)</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Average is extremely misleading unless you reboot in between or make sure</div><div>it's all paged out. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Shortest I've gotten with 2.4 is 15 sec or so, even worse on Mac where 2.4</div><div>needs to start the X server if it's not already running (which it rarely is). With</div><div>the 3.0 beta it's down to about 6 seconds on first start, which isn't great, but</div><div>certainly tolerable.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Subsequent starts are far faster _if_ I haven't done anything in the meantime</div><div>to page it out, which essentially means I never see it happen other than in test</div><div>situations. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite">Time to open any of a whole lot of docs (*.odt): can't accurately time <br>it, they all are much less than 1 second.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I've yet to see a Writer window open in less than 2 seconds, and that applies</div><div>even with the 3.0 beta, which is far faster for me.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite">Admittedly, this is on good hardware (Q6600, 4.5GB RAM) but I have <br>noticed no particular slowness on my Win Sony Centrino laptop which has <br>a single core mobile chip and 2GB.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I've tested in both on a 2GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook with 2GB RAM running</div><div>10.5.1 and a MacBook Pro still running 10.5, the latter with 3GB RAM.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>My wife also complains about the same poor performance on her Sony Vaio,</div><div>which is slightly lower spec'ed and with only 1GB, and I've previously seen</div><div>the same on my dual Xeon home server (Linux) with 4GB RAM, as well as</div><div>my old IBM Thinkpad laptop.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On most of these machines I've regularly been running Pages or Word (the Mac's)</div><div>or AbiWord (the Linux box) as alternatives the few times I need more than what</div><div>Google Docs provides (which consistently beat all of them in loading time for me),</div><div>and they've consistently started in a fraction of the time OOo has started in</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If I'd ever gotten the kind of startup times you quote, I'd have been ecstatic.</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>As I wrote in another message, though, the 3.0 beta is massively improved, and</div><div>I think it's gotten the startup times down to levels where I can tolerate it.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- </div><div>Vidar Hokstad</div><div>Technical Director</div><div>Aardvark Media Limited</div><div><div>Mobile: 0795 867 7857</div><div>Direct Dial: 020 7183 2740</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>2 Fulham Business Exchange</div><div>The Boulevard</div><div>Imperial Wharf</div><div>London</div><div>SW6 2TL</div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>