KOffice vs. OpenOffice

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Art Alexion wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 10:50:11 am Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>>> On Monday 29 September 2008 8:12:53 am Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> As I detailed elsewhere - a 93 byte .csv on my own system took 95 seconds
> 
>> Well, it was 95 seconds _with_ OO already open, but I'm not sure if it would
>> be slower from scratch.
> 
>     Then there is something seriously wrong with your system.  My machine is
> old.  An AMD 2800+ admittedly OCed to 3200+, 2Gb of 2700 RAM and a 200Gb Sata
> drive.  I built this machine 5 years ago.  To open oowriter, navigate to my
> 17pg. document and open it, less than a minute.  The document itself was
> opened almost instantly.  I don't happen to have a 93 byte .csv to test with.
>  However, I have used OOCalc a bit for some of my gaming.  The resulting
> spreadsheets were a tad larger than 93 bytes.  ;)


On my laptop, core duo 2ghz 2 gb ram, opening a 20k csv with OOo 3 beta 
takes 20 seconds; if OO is already open, about 3. The hard drive is not 
particularly fast, which I guess is the cause for most of the loading time.
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