OpenOffice.org Optimizer

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:47:37PM +0800, Joel Bryan T. Juliano wrote:
> I made another script that will optimize all the XML database
> OpenOffice.org 2.0 use, (847 to be exact). 
> 
> Sorry, no backup method for your configs yet, coz it'll take up more
> than 50 MB of my disk space, and I don't have that enough free space :-)
> But I tried it and nothing b0rked. But if your in doubt, just backup
> your /usr/lib/openoffice directory. (that's >200MB)
> 
> The significant effect will be felt when your inside OpenOffice.
> Everything is snappier, and very responsive. The menus appear
> instantanously and spellcheck's suggested words is very snappy.
> But I can't feel any difference in loading times. I think there's just a
> small difference.
> 
> I can say it feels more like Microsoft Office when your inside the
> application. :-)

Surely these files are not parsed continuously while the program is running,
but only once (at startup or on first demand).  Even if they were to parse
much faster (something which hasn't been measured yet), I wouldn't expect it
to quantitatively improve responsiveness in the application.

Perhaps you're simply seeing the effects of priming the buffer cache because
you're loading OO.o a second time after having recently run it.

-- 
 - mdz