Is OpenOffice.org getting faster?

Courtesy LWN.net  Thu, 05/29/2008 - 11:43

Andrew Ziem has put together an analysis of OpenOffice.org performance trends.

"Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of performance improvements, but there are also new features, some of which may slow things down.

This the natural balance in software development, but in the end, what is the net effect on performance from one version to the next?

We need a good benchmark to produce good data, but what do we measure?...

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