From: Brian Hall 

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:

> I kinda like it, but it has one big problem: it's reaaaally slooooowww. I've
> got a whopping 800Mhz system, and it takes up to about half a minute or more
> to start any of the OO apps, while Word pops up in (testing) about 3
> seconds. Strange, and strangely annoying. I would have thought that it
> wouldn't bother me so much, but it does.

Word is probably preloading at boot time taking some memory that could be
used for other things. OpenOffice has an option to do the same thing.

I don't consider load time to be a big deal. I tend to open the word
processor or spreadsheet and leave it open for quite a while. I did notice
that v1.1 of OpenOffice opens faster than 1.0.

I just did a test on my Win2K box. I did a reboot and waited for everything
to settle down. I started the OpenOffice word processor. It opened and was
ready to use in 7 seconds. I closed it, waited 30 seconds and started MS
Word 97. It opened and was ready to use in 4 seconds. The biggest
difference was that MS Word's splash screen appears instantly and the
splash screen for OpenOffice didn't appear until 4 seconds had passed. This
test was on an Athlon XP 1900+ system with 1GB of memory.

Brian

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