Plugin Bloat (speeding up OpenOffice?)

[Martin Owens]

> Essentially is a feature of a capitalist society.
> But, even at the kernel level, look at the number of different file
> systems
> we support, such as ext2, ext3, reiserfs, JFS, XFS, Minix, FAT, NTFS, and
> even JCSOFS. We need to support many different forms of comms, such as
> Ethernet, wireless, and others. And, that also adds many different
> chipsets,
> et. al. Then you have the different CPUs from the x86 to the 64-bit Alphas
> and IA64s.


Yes but the kernel has modules, you can build as much of the features as you
want; where as OpenOffice doesn't work like that down at it's core
architecture. it could probably learn a lot from kernel devs. but would
require a rewrite I think.

Regards, Martin

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