OpenOffice.org 1.1.0-6.1

Hi!

The prelink friendly binary unfortunately is not the default in FC1,
but you can speed up OOo start by:
ln -sf soffice2.bin /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin 
as root.

ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/openoffice.org/
contains openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 packages which differ from 1.1.0-6 as
present in FC1 in 2 things:
a) soffice2.bin is the default, so you don't have to run the above
   command to speed it up
b) it has been compiled with -Os.  This seems to save 9MB on allocated
   library size and e.g. when running oowriter should cut the total
   size of libraries loaded from around 71MB to ~ 66MB (by ~ 5.25MB).
In theory this should speed up OO.o startup time especially when
caches are cold (ie. when running oowriter the first time after boot).
I've tried to measure some numbers with time(1):
cold are after running cat 2.8GB file > /dev/null, hot are 3rd up to 5th
invocations of the program, each measurement repeated 3 times.
The first numbers are from the default 1.1.0-6 oowriter,
second with 1.1.0-6 after ln -sf soffice2.bin /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
and third with 1.1.0-6.1 default. Dual PIII, 651MHz.
Measuring with time is of course very inaccurate.

oowriter soffice1.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6 prelinked
cold
real    0m21.010s	0m18.963s	0m22.451s
user    0m4.390s	0m4.350s	0m4.360s
sys     0m0.560s	0m0.580s	0m0.500s
hot
real    0m5.003s	0m4.991s	0m5.000s
user    0m4.190s	0m4.290s	0m4.260s
sys     0m0.360s	0m0.250s	0m0.270s

oowriter soffice2.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 prelinked
cold
real    0m18.445s	0m17.709s	0m20.787s
user    0m2.950s	0m3.000s	0m2.940s
sys     0m0.450s	0m0.450s	0m0.590s
hot
real    0m3.773s	0m3.757s	0m3.766s
user    0m2.880s	0m2.810s	0m2.810s
sys     0m0.270s	0m0.370s	0m0.280s

oowriter soffice2.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 prelinked
cold
real    0m18.273s	0m17.501s	0m19.459s
user    0m2.930s	0m2.940s	0m2.780s
sys     0m0.400s	0m0.430s	0m0.670s
hot
real    0m3.356s	0m3.392s	0m3.740s
user    0m2.830s	0m2.890s	0m2.860s
sys     0m0.270s	0m0.240s	0m0.260s


	Jakub


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