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The next generation office suite

Posted Mar 16, 2006 9:51 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785)
In reply to: The next generation office suite by gypsumfantastic
Parent article: The next generation office suite

>Sometimes, you just have to accept that you can't polish a turd.

Well it seems that there have been quite a lot of trial to optimise the linking part of application startup (not only from OOo guys), all rejected.
I doubt that those who tried to fix the problem did it 'just for fun', there is probably also a real problem in the linker, which doesn't scale well for big apps..


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