On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 09:53 -0500, mark wrote: > Still, maybe by 5.0, OO.o will be good. Hell, I despised WordPerfect > before 5.0 or 5.1
I used WP 5.1 on DOS and Novell. Then Impression Publisher came out with infinitely scalable outline fonts, true WYSIWYG, colour separations and real-time grpahics rotation on a 25 MHz processor, 4 meg machine without the need for a hard drive and direct drive laser printing. WP could not hold a candle to it. Even now, over 15 years later, I have yet to find anything anywhere near as fast and versatile. It shows how important coding is to speed and efficiency. Impression was hand coded in assembler and optimised for the hardware. Still if 12 programmers in the UK can do that in 2 years I don't really see why if there is the will and priority given to the task, OOo can't be made a lot slicker. Not that I expect people to code in Assembler across several platforms. Just get rid of any redundant code or operations and examine every routine to see if it can be improved for speed or size. In millions of lines of code I would be very surprised if everything is as good as it can be. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
