[NBLUG/talk] Re: slow open office startup

[Lincoln Peters]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 06:05 pm, Tim Preston wrote:
> So, can anyone explain this in OO's progamming? Is it loading stuff, or
> creating temp files? Couldn't there be a file or group of files that
> already exist that OO uses to startup? Or, is it just recreating the
> files everytime it starts that slows it down?

I've heard that the inner workings of OpenOffice are rather difficult to 
understand because most of the function and variable names in the source code 
are mostly in German (the original StarOffice was written by a German 
company).  I've also heard complaints about how StarOffice/OpenOffice tries 
to be a single application that does everything; that would seem to 
contribute to its slow startup time.

I have to say, though, that every new release of OpenOffice has seemed FASTER 
to me, not slower.  The codebase that they started with was really bloated 
and inefficient, but it seems to be improving.

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Lincoln Peters
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