Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

2015-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/10/2015 Pedro Giffuni wrote: Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? ... It’s too easy to be biased when you make such changes so it would be interesting to get confirmation ;). Yes, you are not biased, there are independent, unsolicited reports that 4.1.2 is much, faster on

Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

2015-10-29 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Thanks for the feedback Francis, I looked a bit into the MSVC documentation and it appears their calloc() uses malloc() internally. It is likely that there are subtle compatibility reasons for them to avoid some tweaks that linux and other systems do. Maybe using calloc has secondary long-term

Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

2015-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Just wondering … > > Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? In the BSDs we generally > prefer to use calloc over malloc + memset when it makes sense. A relatively > small change that I did, and was safe enough

Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

2015-10-28 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Just wondering … Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? In the BSDs we generally prefer to use calloc over malloc + memset when it makes sense. A relatively small change that I did, and was safe enough to be merged to the release, might have had an effect there. It’s too easy to be