[Gllug] Office Alternatives

[James Roberts]

Vidar Hokstad wrote:
> Average is extremely misleading unless you reboot in between or make sure
> it's all paged out. 
>

I did also give the first load times :)

You are arguing for using the worst-case figure not the typical figure :)
> Shortest I've gotten with 2.4 is 15 sec or so

New hardware?
>  even worse on Mac
I've heard this.

> I've yet to see a Writer window open in less than 2 seconds, and that 
> applies
> even with the 3.0 beta, which is far faster for me.
> If I'd ever gotten the kind of startup times you quote, I'd have been 
> ecstatic.
What can I say? I'm not making it up.

I'd be worried if any of my systems were actually regularly paging 
though - RAM is cheap.

MeJ
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