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Have you ever tried running Office with a little network latency? The 10x slowdown is barely usable and unavoidably annoying, especially if you're used to a fas

• kenjackson 16y ago
  Probably 50% of the time I use office it is over remote desktop over VPN, and honestly I don't really notice it (I really don't notice it for any application except streaming media over RDP isn't great, but surprisingly acceptable). Maybe we just have really fast networks.
  • rbanffy 16y ago
    With Remote Desktop you are running Office on the machine that has a fast network and only transferring the pixels that change. That's not, probably, what jawee was saying.
    • kenjackson 16y ago
      But I use Office completely w/o a network connection quite often. It's not a web app. It rarely touches the network. Just about the only time I hit the network is when using Excel to access a relational store or if your document is on a file share (and even then the document is stored locally after opening it). I assumed he meant something where the network latency would impose a keystroke-level degredation in performance.
      • rbanffy 16y ago
        I think jawee's point is that little latencies (memory, cache, IO) quickly add up to make emulation much harder than that. The picture may not be that grim if at least timing-critical parts of Office can be made into fat binaries. I would not bet on straight emulation of uncooperative code, however.
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