Plugin Bloat (speeding up OpenOffice?)

[jerry.feldman at algorithmics.com (Jerry Feldman)]

Martin Owens wrote:



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. 
No disagreement. I was just responding more to the overall bloat than to
OpenOffice per se. StarOffice was somewhat bloated long before Sun bought
it. 

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