His two complaints are one and the same: that OpenOffice uses more RAM than Excel.
I have 2 Gb of ram in my machine, and his 16-sheet file loaded in one minute flat, not three as his benchmark showed. This is within 25% of the 47-second time that zipped MS XML loaded in Excel, which should be the most useful comparison since OpenOffice uses zipped XML as well.
So, it doesn't seem there is a huge processing difference between the two engines; the difference is much more likely that he was swapping memory out to disk.
My conclusion: Fix the RAM problem in Open Office and this issue evaporates.
Yes, it was a small step and probably had no effect on legislators -- but it was still a step in the right direction.
I think if there had been ten people walking the floor of the show either handing out flyers or just loudly announcing the march, a lot more people might have joined in. It needed to be better publicized!!
So next year, let's do it again and bring signs and bullhorns. There are really vocal paid lobbyists for the other side; it's time that we made some noise of our own.
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His two complaints are one and the same: that OpenOffice uses more RAM than Excel. I have 2 Gb of ram in my machine, and his 16-sheet file loaded in one minute flat, not three as his benchmark showed. This is within 25% of the 47-second time that zipped MS XML loaded in Excel, which should be the most useful comparison since OpenOffice uses zipped XML as well. So, it doesn't seem there is a huge processing difference between the two engines; the difference is much more likely that he was swapping memory out to disk. My conclusion: Fix the RAM problem in Open Office and this issue evaporates.
Yes, it was a small step and probably had no effect on legislators -- but it was still a step in the right direction.
I think if there had been ten people walking the floor of the show either handing out flyers or just loudly announcing the march, a lot more people might have joined in. It needed to be better publicized!!
So next year, let's do it again and bring signs and bullhorns. There are really vocal paid lobbyists for the other side; it's time that we made some noise of our own.
And besides, it was a lot of fun!