Why is OpenOffice slow?

[azmrb]

It is so slow it just ridiculous.  Just copying the text from a webpage
like this one and pasting it into OOwriter takes more than 7 minutes
and when I save it the file size is only 23kb.  To open that same 23kb
file takes more than 5 minutes.



Mind you, this is on a dual core Athlon64X2 4200+ processor with 2gb
ram and I haven't even dipped into the swap file yet.  Is it just this
slow on amd64 architecture or is it this slow on 32bit as well.



It is almost like they shipped the debug version instead of the release
version.


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azmrb