> And yet me getting-old laptop is still snappy. I think it's more that MSO > is written in absurdly-tuned C & assembler, whereas OOo is portable C++ & > Java. >
Actually, MSO is written in a high-level language. I forget which, but it's not .NET. They do that because there are a lot of bugs, and their support contracts with large firms means that they have to address those bugs. There was a great article on it on some MSDN blog about a year or two ago. Also, I vaguely remember Joel on Software talking about the anatomy of a Word bug. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/880dece01003181355t5b9c6ed4q3ba2794e5bb5b...@mail.gmail.com
