Performance

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As George Ou has famously said, "It doesn't matter how fast the CPU is, OpenOffice is just bloated."

Known areas for improvement

system issues

  • Linux / Linking - relocation processing is very slow ( ogg video, odp slides ) two possible ways to fix that
    • re-ordering symbol & elf hash tables to improve cache locality, lots of good & simple ideas here.
    • -Bdirect implementation [1] - gaining little traction.
  • Linux / I/O scheduling & pre-loading is poor

General I/O & memory issues

  • Configuration information scattered across many files
  • UI configuration - tons of scattered files
  • .rdb files - loads of empty space, mmap + random access pattern

Helpful tooling

Approaches being worked on

  • Config refactor - reduce seeks/files, better caching
  • Disk Access
  • -Bdirect linking
  • FIXME - Malte - we should really have your list embedded here ...

Other Pages

This Wiki page should become the ultimate authority on performance issues. Meanwhile, here are links to performance informationat other places

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