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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: What can be done to accelerate KDE 1.
From:       jens () pinguin ! conetix ! de
Date:       1999-02-20 12:29:38
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On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 05:28:10PM -0500, Randy Carpenter wrote:

> > > everything/anything else is that it is one huge superapp.  When you
> > > start SO, the wordprocessor starts, the graphics app loads, the
> > > presentation app loads, the browser, email, etc, etc.  It is not a
> > > modular app - everything
> > that is wrong. Completely.
> maybe...  but I tried to run StarOffice on a P-120mmx with 32MB ram, and
> it is totally unusable... takes *minutes* to load, and eats up all the
> ram, plus 20-30MB of swap

yes, because their class library is not ported on efficiency basis. The
Linux port of Staroffice 3.x was a "can-do" thing, it wasn't for production
use. The developers did it in their free time, mostly, using Star divisions
developer tools though (company approved).

Then, when the suits decided it would be a real product, they took their
q'n'd hacks and based Staroffice on them, instead of writing clean from
scratch.

It is slow, right. But it is much much more modular than MS Office.


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