[Open Office] Internal quickstarter

[Jan Uhlir]

> > 3 times slower than the guy who posted starting below 1
> > seconds, i.e 0.7s.
> 
> 	As I said - it will be *no* faster for the 1st start, if someone else
> says it is they are confused :-)

You are right Michael, repeated test showed that time  command prints
result slightly before ooo window is really shown, so some subprocess
is measured, not the whole lot.

So I took and old fashioned approach - a simple stop watch - and this 
gives times rougly oscilating from 2 - 3s. Not bad times anyway!

Also Xorg configuration can have a big inpact.
I had to set "RenderAccel" to "false" in driver section, because long lasting
Radeon driver bug (reported bug) occasionaly corrupting fonts. 
This slowered OOo startup by another 1s.
So I'm currently on 3-4s even when using preload + ooqstarter technique.
Consider preloading doesn't work reliably - preloaded instance is closed
with the last closed visible window - that's worse :(

So is there any recommended way how to measure startup speed?

I was thinking about ooo macro triggered on startup (handled in command l
ine) sending 'finish' finish flag by touching a special file.
One file touched right before launching ooo and the second by the 
macro in ooo. And difference in timestaps of those two files could mean 
a "meaningful" startup time.

Jan
the-guy-with-unbelievable-startup-times :)