I just tried to time the starts on three machines. The older version of Star Office (6.0) let me count to 15 (one one thousand, two one thousand, etc) before it was started on a 1 gig duron with 256meg. SO 5.2 on an .8 gig Athlon and 770 megs took so long I thought it wasn't going to start (got to over 20 counting before I gave up counting, but it finally started, maybe in 25 secs.) On a 1 gig duron with 650megs SO 7.0 started up by the time I got to 5. So, startup time is reduced by 66% in my tests, which I consider official and final.
I can't compare SO 6 and SO 7 on the same machine because SO 7 removed SO 6 when it was installed. Joel On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:10:06AM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2003 4:27 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > StarOffice 7 user question: > > > > I am curious about the quicker startup time for StarOffice 7. I am not > > convinced mine is really faster than OpenOffice 1.1. Maybe this is how > > it should be. > > > > When your StarOffice 7 starts, you get the little startup box with a > > progress bar. On mine, the window shows up reasonably quick. The > > progress bar zips to just about the middle almost instantly. However, > > at this midpoint location it stops for some seconds. Then it pops to > > the end almost instantly. Is this how it acts on other systems? I may > > just be expecting too much. I wonder if this is different if you have > > a faster hard disk, as I think lots of the startup time is reading in > > files. > > I get the same results here on an Athlon 800mhz with SCSI drives... And > I don't think it really is starting any faster than StarOffice 6.0 did. > > > > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 11/12/03 > 07:08 + > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > Hansen's Library Axiom: > "The closest library doesn't have the material you need." > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
