Hi!
The prelink friendly binary unfortunately is not the default in FC1,
but you can speed up OOo start by:
ln -sf soffice2.bin /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
as root.
ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/openoffice.org/
contains openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 packages which differ from 1.1.0-6 as
present in FC1 in 2 things:
a) soffice2.bin is the default, so you don't have to run the above
command to speed it up
b) it has been compiled with -Os. This seems to save 9MB on allocated
library size and e.g. when running oowriter should cut the total
size of libraries loaded from around 71MB to ~ 66MB (by ~ 5.25MB).
In theory this should speed up OO.o startup time especially when
caches are cold (ie. when running oowriter the first time after boot).
I've tried to measure some numbers with time(1):
cold are after running cat 2.8GB file > /dev/null, hot are 3rd up to 5th
invocations of the program, each measurement repeated 3 times.
The first numbers are from the default 1.1.0-6 oowriter,
second with 1.1.0-6 after ln -sf soffice2.bin /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
and third with 1.1.0-6.1 default. Dual PIII, 651MHz.
Measuring with time is of course very inaccurate.
oowriter soffice1.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6 prelinked
cold
real 0m21.010s 0m18.963s 0m22.451s
user 0m4.390s 0m4.350s 0m4.360s
sys 0m0.560s 0m0.580s 0m0.500s
hot
real 0m5.003s 0m4.991s 0m5.000s
user 0m4.190s 0m4.290s 0m4.260s
sys 0m0.360s 0m0.250s 0m0.270s
oowriter soffice2.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 prelinked
cold
real 0m18.445s 0m17.709s 0m20.787s
user 0m2.950s 0m3.000s 0m2.940s
sys 0m0.450s 0m0.450s 0m0.590s
hot
real 0m3.773s 0m3.757s 0m3.766s
user 0m2.880s 0m2.810s 0m2.810s
sys 0m0.270s 0m0.370s 0m0.280s
oowriter soffice2.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 prelinked
cold
real 0m18.273s 0m17.501s 0m19.459s
user 0m2.930s 0m2.940s 0m2.780s
sys 0m0.400s 0m0.430s 0m0.670s
hot
real 0m3.356s 0m3.392s 0m3.740s
user 0m2.830s 0m2.890s 0m2.860s
sys 0m0.270s 0m0.240s 0m0.260s
Jakub