Comparative performance testing of OpenOffice and LibreOffice
Since the split among the developers of OpenOffice.org in October 2010 and the fork, called LibreOffice, separated from the project, the open source has wondered what product to use now?
Many fundamentally began to move precisely to LibreOffice, in spite of Oracle, which, in the opinion of most of the major developers, unduly controlled the development of the product. LibreOffice promised users a more dynamic development (the new versions do come out more often than their ancestor), development by an independent community, as well as providing programmers with complete freedom without restrictions.
It is interesting to see how the products, which were once one whole, differed in performance. In the latest versions of LibreOffice, developers have announced significant code optimizations and an increase in package performance, but which product is faster today?
The latest versions of the packages were used - OpenOffice 3.4.0 and LibreOffice 3.5.4, as well as, for comparison, MS Office Excel 2010 SP1, in the “default” configuration (additional modules - by default, background spell checking is enabled) Windows XP virtual machine was used SP3, because in terms of configuration and power it is most similar to the fleet of cars that I have at work. To minimize the influence of two packets on each other, after each measurement, the virtual machine rebooted. For some tests, 2 measurements were taken, the results were identical, so for the others there was one attempt. Files opened from a running application through the File-Open menu. Services to speed up packages, loading at startup, have been disabled.
For text editor tests, a 5 mb doc file was used. and a volume of 331 pages, containing a large number of figures and tables. Further, the same file was saved to the odt format. To test the table processor, an xls file of 21 mb in size was taken. with subsequent resaving in * .ods.
It was decided to measure the performance on several, standard with us, yuzkeysah:
Actually, the goal was to find out whether it makes sense to switch from the (seemingly) dying OpenOffice to the young and promising LibreOffice .
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OpenOffice Calc is frozen on the test xlsx file, so there is no data for this operation. The test with xlsl files was not taken into account when calculating overall performance.
It should be noted that in MS Office the download is trickier, it loads the file step by step, so you shouldn’t compare the speed of operations with it, although the user in any case starts working with the document faster.
In spite of all the statements of the developers of LibreOffice, the tube OpenOffice turned out to be much faster (although I actually counted on the opposite results) - by 23% (Writer) and 20% (Calc) . And memory consumption is 16% more economical (Writer) and 11% (Calc) .
Total time of operations:
Do habrazhiteley have something to say about this?
The study does not pretend to be academic, moreover, I don’t care Libre, for some reason, I like it more, so ardent fans shouldn’t be so excited :)
Many fundamentally began to move precisely to LibreOffice, in spite of Oracle, which, in the opinion of most of the major developers, unduly controlled the development of the product. LibreOffice promised users a more dynamic development (the new versions do come out more often than their ancestor), development by an independent community, as well as providing programmers with complete freedom without restrictions.
It is interesting to see how the products, which were once one whole, differed in performance. In the latest versions of LibreOffice, developers have announced significant code optimizations and an increase in package performance, but which product is faster today?
Test conditions
The latest versions of the packages were used - OpenOffice 3.4.0 and LibreOffice 3.5.4, as well as, for comparison, MS Office Excel 2010 SP1, in the “default” configuration (additional modules - by default, background spell checking is enabled) Windows XP virtual machine was used SP3, because in terms of configuration and power it is most similar to the fleet of cars that I have at work. To minimize the influence of two packets on each other, after each measurement, the virtual machine rebooted. For some tests, 2 measurements were taken, the results were identical, so for the others there was one attempt. Files opened from a running application through the File-Open menu. Services to speed up packages, loading at startup, have been disabled.
For text editor tests, a 5 mb doc file was used. and a volume of 331 pages, containing a large number of figures and tables. Further, the same file was saved to the odt format. To test the table processor, an xls file of 21 mb in size was taken. with subsequent resaving in * .ods.
It was decided to measure the performance on several, standard with us, yuzkeysah:
- Opening a new, clean document
- Opening a * .doc file \ *. Xls
- Opening a * .docx file \ *. Xlsx
- Saving the * .doc file \ *. Xls to * .odt \ *. Ods
- Opening a * .odt file * * ods
Actually, the goal was to find out whether it makes sense to switch from the (seemingly) dying OpenOffice to the young and promising LibreOffice .
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results
Operation time in seconds:
Memory consumption in megabytes:
OpenOffice Calc is frozen on the test xlsx file, so there is no data for this operation. The test with xlsl files was not taken into account when calculating overall performance.
It should be noted that in MS Office the download is trickier, it loads the file step by step, so you shouldn’t compare the speed of operations with it, although the user in any case starts working with the document faster.
Findings:
In spite of all the statements of the developers of LibreOffice, the tube OpenOffice turned out to be much faster (although I actually counted on the opposite results) - by 23% (Writer) and 20% (Calc) . And memory consumption is 16% more economical (Writer) and 11% (Calc) .
Total time of operations:
Do habrazhiteley have something to say about this?
PS
The study does not pretend to be academic, moreover, I don’t care Libre, for some reason, I like it more, so ardent fans shouldn’t be so excited :)
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/145177/
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