On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:15 am, manolis wrote: > > Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. > > It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office > > that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever > > version); that's how MS Office "appears" to load so fast - it's because > > most of it's engine is already in system memory prior to even launching > > the application. That's how Microsoft makes use of "slight of hand" to > > make things appear faster - same with IE. > > My opinion is that I don't think this is cheating, it's a good idea to > pre-launch many usable parts of libraries in boot time in windows. > I don't close the system many times, so as many things are in the memory > cache as better it is....
It's only cheating if you are doing a comparison and don't tell that you are doing this, which is what MS likes to do. The fairest way to compare is to try launching OO.o with the quickstarter utility that is available, which does the same thing for OO.o that Windows does for Office. -- Greg
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