Bob Hunter wrote: > Hello, > > you are doing great! Keep going. One thing I may > suggest is the following. Get inspired from the > mozilla project, and split the monster into individual > applications. It will be easier to make progress, port > to other platforms (e.g. OSX), and improve their > stability and performance.
Wether OOo consists of one or several applications is only a technical issue that *per se* does not influence performance, portability or stability. The stability argument usually means something different: a crash of one application does not crash the others - but it does not make OOo applications crash less often! This is BTW the *only* advantage I can see in having separate applications. The portability isn't easier with separate applications: the very fine grained structure of OOo where platform independent code is encapsulated into a few modules while the rest of them is mostly platform agnostic is completely independent of the number of applications built upon these modules. Simply splitting into several apps will not improve performance, on the contrary: starting Calc after Writer will be *slower* for separate applications because you have to do intitializations a second time and the memory footprint of separate applications will be higher when you start more than one module at a time. Improving startup performance needs more module separation *inside*, that's independent from the number of applications (processes) that make up OOo. If you start Writer today you don't load any Calc code - you just load too much code that Writer *might* need later, but doesn't on startup - that's a code modularity problem, not an application modularity problem. It is important that the applications *feel* like separated ones where necessary, and that's what we tried to achieve with OOo2.0. We still can do better, but that's not an issue of having one or several processes. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
