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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: OpenOffice.org bloat article
From:       Robert Knight <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-10-28 2:09:53
Message-ID: 13ed09c00510271909t6a58915ei () mail ! gmail ! com
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> I'd say even more: it's poor that Excel is
> optimized here (and hardware is so fast) because otherwise we could see more
> people convinced to databases.

I consider that a poor excuse.  KSpread's memory usage and open/save
performance does need to be improved.  Gnumeric can open the SXC
spreadsheet mentioned in 60 seconds - which is less than half of the
time required by OpenOffice itself.

Code to reduce the memory usage by changing the storage of cell
formatting information has already been partly written, and I'm sure
that other aspects can be improved as well.  I am really keen to sort
out these long-standing issues in KSpread for 1.5, as this will give
us a solid base to build new features for the 2.0 release.



On 10/27/05, Jaroslaw Staniek <js@iidea.pl> wrote:
> Gary Cramblitt said the following, On 2005-10-27 23:48:
>
> > On Thursday 27 October 2005 01:02 pm, Adam Treat wrote:
> >
> >>ZDNet has an article up claiming to show extremely unimpressive
> performance
> >>for OpenOffice 2.0 when opening documents.
> >>
> >>Anyone had a look at how KOffice fares when opening these kind of
> >>documents? Might be good to see, as I'm sure that'll be coming...
> >>
> >>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=119
> >
> >
> > Someone on slashdot claimed that the reason oo required 3 minutes to load
> the
> > doc was that it was trying (and retrying) unsuccessfully to load the
> > not-installed JRE.  Go into the oo settings and turn off Java and it loads
>
> > *much* faster.  Don't know if this is true.  Anyone?
> >
>
> Looks like a typical /. theory :)
>
> It's like anyone would think that, say, OO.org is looking for JRE for every
>
> loaded spreadsheet's cell. :)
>
> Verified: I've got JRE installed and loaded into memory and the result is
> still very similar as when JRE is unchecked.
>
> --
> regards / pozdrawiam,
>   Jaroslaw Staniek / OpenOffice Polska
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