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Performance is relative easy to test: open a CSV with 100k rows in Excel, Calc and Google Spreadsheets.
by sz4kerto 9y ago
Performance is relative easy to test: open a CSV with 100k rows in Excel, Calc and Google Spreadsheets.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoI suspect most of Libre Office's slow performance is a result of using JAVA.
- MegaDeKay 9y agoNope. From https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Java https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Java - "Note though that very little of this Java code is actually part of the shipped product." A lot of the Java stuff is ancillary, and chunks of Java code have been rewritten to C++ over time. Part of the reason that LibreOffice is slow is that it was essentially debugged into existence. Michael Meeks from Collabra would often post to Planet Gnome about his optimization work. There is certainly hope looking forward. It is a lot faster than it used to be, and they will hopefully be enabling Multi-threading in Calc for LibreOffice 6.0. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOffice-Calc-Threading https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOff...
- amake 9y agoDid you just time travel here from 1999?
- jsjohnst 9y agoTry doing that in MS Office for Mac, equally as bad. :( IT team at a previous employer had to setup Windows VM for some sales folks (who otherwise loved Mac) because it was so bad.