[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Load times for Kword as compared to other WP
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-05-29 16:03:33
[Download RAW message or body]

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 15:36, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:25, David Faure wrote:

> > Hmm, you have to know that when loading a .txt file, KWord actually
> > loads the text twice. First the text import filter converts the text file
> > to a .kwd file, then KWord loads that one ;-)
> > So there's a way of making the text import much faster: it would need
> > to be rewritten to directly feed the text into KWord.... but then we lose
> > the advantage of command-line conversion, piping to another filter, etc.
> 
> I do not think that it is really the problem, as the test shows that loading 
> the KWord version of the same text takes even longer.

That's technically impossible (since it has to load the .kwd after converting the
.txt to it, loading the .kwd alone can't be longer).
I think the times for the .kwd loading were wrong due to the "it hangs" problem.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today


____________________________________
koffice mailing list
koffice@mail.kde.org
To unsubscribe please visit:
http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]