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OpenOffice Bloated?
cygnusx writes "ZDNet's George Ou has been writing a series of posts about Open Office bloat. Includes some interesting system usage comparisons" From the article: "Even when dealing with what is essentially the same data, OpenOffice Calc uses up 211 MBs of private unsharable memory while Excel uses up 34 MBs of private unsharable memory. The fact that OpenOffice.org Calc takes about 100 times the CPU time explains the kind of drastic results we were getting where Excel could open a file in 2 seconds while Calc would take almost 3 minutes. Most of that massive speed difference is due to XML being very processor intensive, but Microsoft still handles its own XML files about 7 times faster than OpenOffice.org handles OpenDocument ODS format and uses far less memory than OpenOffice.org."
So if you can do worse, your software is considered mega-bloated.
When attempting to replicate one of the biggest bloatware software packages out there, that they make a version even bigger and bloatier!
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Excel also crashes faster than Calc! *ducks*
- vi is a bloated version of ex
- EMACS stands for Eight Megabytes and Continually Swapping
- Sometimes I just telnet to port 80 instead of using a browser
I have compiled OpenOffice from scratch... took a while!I always thought the industry abbreviation "Wintel" says it all. But then again the tinfoil on my hat just gets thicker every year.
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Indeed. Intel should be pushing OpenOffice, because nothing makes me aware of how much I need to upgrade my processor like starting OpenOffice.
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The article author provides a download of the documents he used, and invites everybody to download it and try it out. You are referring to private data that you claim show the opposite. I know who I'm more inclined to belive.
But I'll admit to beeing too lazy to actually find out for myself.
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If only someone would bite the bullet and port OS X or Linux to an Intel platform maybe Intel wouldn't be spreading all this propaganda.
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I realise you're trying to make a statement with all your telnet to port 80 instead of using a browser and such, but I think you should at least have used a compiler to build OpenOffice.
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Far less employee time is wasted waiting for Open Office to run than is wasted on Freecell
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I just don`t know what is the impact of disabling it... Probably some features need it.
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"It is a known problem that OOo takes a while to start. Staroffice (at the point when Sun bought it) was made by a German company. Most of the internal functions are named in german, and use abbreviations that are not obvious."
While I understand that you were not trying to be an open source apologist, this statement is the epitomy of the frustration that many mainstream users have with open source:
Office worker: "why does Open Office take so long to load?"
IT guy: "That's because the routines were written by a German guy in his free time. I'm sorry, little-miss-everybody-should-speak-English, but this poor guy was working for free. What do you expect?"
Office worker: "what does the German language have to do with this?"
IT guy: "Your PC was built in Austin, Texas. German is its second language. See this routine here, öffnenSiediegroßeAkte()? Your American PC doesn't know what that means, and has to consult a dictionary each time it sees it. There's a group of teenagers translating it into English. They work on one word each for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the program and spent several weeks in the hospital."
Office worker: "So, what do I do about it?"
IT guy: "Have a little more tolerance for the global community in which we live, and worship the holy light of open source that's shining out of Richard Stallman's ass. Oh, and consider dying your hair blond, adopting a schnauzer, and carrying a riding crop. Open Office seems to like that."
Office worker: "Dork."
If this continues, I think it will inevetably lead to new ad campaigns like:
Microsoft Office: We won't coerce you into adopting a schnauzer!
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Golly, could also be that many people never have a problem with Microsoft products. Like me. And if I'm being paid by Microsoft for this positive comment, I hope the cheque comes soon. My VISA bill is due.
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