OpenOffice.org Optimizer

[Dana Olson]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:40 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.


That, or a placebo effect.

You're likely right about OpenOffice.org though.

Dana
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