On Saturday 17 February 2007 12:02, David Brodbeck wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
OpenOffice/Writer requiring like 80 MB and quite some time to load up. SMO is on the boat with roughly 7 MB, and well, I don't have any numbers for MSO (a lack of `pmap` on Windows), but given that it starts up as fast on a 16 MB RAM Win98 machine as OOO does on a multi-CPU opteron, I think that tells enough.
MS Office pre-loads a fair amount of stuff at system boot, IIRC. So you're trading off longer boot time and more idle memory consumption for shorter application start up time. It also kind of depends on what version of MS Office you're using. Word 2003 seems to take about as long to load as OpenOffice Writer, for me, on machines with similar resources. If you're running Office on Windows 98, you're probably comparing an older, smaller version of MS Office to a newer version of OpenOffice. Both applications have gotten bigger over time as they became expected to do more.
Yes, they have. I have Office 97 on some machines and Office XP on this machine (under CX Office) and Office 2003 on a few machines, while I have that abomination Office 2007 on one test machine. (Yuck!) They all appear to load faster than OOo because they - well - load in memory when the Window manager (XP/2k/2K3) loads. You can do the same thing with OOo on KDE. I have the OpenOffice Quickstarter loaded on startup. It doesn't seem to take much in time to load overall and only takes about 30MB of RAM. On all my systems, I have at least 1GB or more of RAM so 30MB is not a big deal. (Still don't know what to do with all those 256K and 512K SIMM cards I have lying around...) I just checked on my laptop and OOo Writer took three seconds to load.
Sometimes I get nostalgic for the days when documents didn't have to be so fancy. I still remember when it was socially acceptable to buzz out a business report in 12-point Elite on a dot-matrix printer, rip off the tractor-feed tracks, and turn it in. ;)
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