Joined: Jun 23, 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Seward, Alaska, USA
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:33 pm Post subject: start-up slowed
I just upgraded from 0.8.0patch3 to 0.8.1patch1 (yes, all at once). On my iMac DV 500/512RAM/Panther/Java 1.4.2 (JDK, too), application start-up time has increased nearly 50%. Quit time also increased similarly. Everything else actually feels slightly more snappy.
On the bright side, quitting the app w/o any open windows from the Apple menu bar now functions (didn't in 0.7.0 and I didn't test in 0.8.0). Still, it would be nice to be able to open a new window from that menu.
Also, I haven't checked the available tasks for contribution [blush] so.... How difficult, in your humble opinion, would it be for a non-programmer to port the help system into the OSX native system? _________________ Faster than a speeding slug!
I'm Paraplegic Racehorse.
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: start-up slowed
Paraplegic_Racehorse wrote:
I just upgraded from 0.8.0patch3 to 0.8.1patch1 (yes, all at once). On my iMac DV 500/512RAM/Panther/Java 1.4.2 (JDK, too), application start-up time has increased nearly 50%. Quit time also increased similarly. Everything else actually feels slightly more snappy.
Is it always slower or was it slower the first time you ran NeoJ 0.8.1? The first time NeoJ is run after booting (and a NeoJ install or upgrade is no different), start up will be very slow because Mac OS X is loading all of NeoJ's binary files into memory. The next time you start NeoJ, startup time will drop significantly since the virtual memory manager will already have the binary files loaded in memory from the last time that you ran NeoJ.
To you a sense of the different, here are the startup times on my G4 450 MHz PowerBook with 768 MB of memory:
- First startup after booting: 21 seconds for splash screen and 41 seconds for the first document window to appear
- Second startup: 7 seconds for splash scrren and 19 seconds for the first document window to appear
Paraplegic_Racehorse wrote:
Also, I haven't checked the available tasks for contribution [blush] so.... How difficult, in your humble opinion, would it be for a non-programmer to port the help system into the OSX native system?
The underlying OOo code uses lots of C++ code to manage help files. In other words, this is no small undertaking. Also, even if you figure it out and change all the code (I'm not going to even start down that path as this is more in line with the goals of NeoOffice, not NeoOffice/J), you would need to go through and convert all of the localized help files (e.g. French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, etc.) that are published by the OOo documentation teams.
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