Startup time of OOo2, Firefox 1.5. Some surprises.

[michael meeks]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 21:40 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > I then measured how long it took to start up the app the second
> > time, when the cache was nice and hot:
> >
> > 4 Firefox run2 native 96MB
> > 6 Firefox run2 wine 96MB
> > 36 ooo run2 native 96MB
> > 28 ooo run2 wine 96MB

	It takes you 28 secs to warm-start OO.o ? that's pretty amazing ;-)
it's ~4 seconds for me.

> I suspect the reason is the slow shared library
> loading that Michael Meeks is working on fixing.
> Once that's in (if he can convince Ulrich Drepper),
> native OOo should load as fast as OOo under wine.

	Yes - quite; of course, there are still a -few- bonus' with Win32
linking I think; ordinal lookups rather than hash/string comparisons -
but by more cunning sorting, pre-computed hash value comparisons, and
direct linkage we can drastically reduce that cost.

	As you say though - convincing Ulrich it is a good idea is the main
challenge here :-)

	HTH,

		Michael.

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