Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:05:37 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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http://thenewmarketing.com/blogs/thenewmarketing/archive/2006/07/14/103.aspx
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>>| They're advertising OpenOffice, a free, open-source office software
>>| suite from Sun Microsystems. Other slogans include, "Stop giving a bully
>>| your lunch money", "Compatible with expensive, closed, memory loving
>>| software", and "Prehistoric reptilians welcome."
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> That's rich. Sun complaining that Office is 'memory loving'. Have they
> looked at OOo's memory consumption lately? It leaves office in the dust.
When you open any one of the OO suite then it will take a fairly large chunk
of memory if it is available. But from then on you can launch as many
others as you like with no extra loss of resources.
For example you open Writer and if it is available it will take around 20mb.
Then from with in there create a new spreadsheet and no more is taken.
There isn't a need because OO is sharing the code, all that has been
created is a view and it has been created withing OO's current memory
allocation.
It doesn't matter if much of the shared code ends up in virtual on a busy
machine or one with lower resources, it is still brought in much more
quickly from virtual than from disc.
Which accounts for the fact that from clicking New {any type of document}
from the menu of any part of OO takes 2 seconds, because it doesn't take
long to create a view.
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