You can download the free process explorer that was from sysinternals but
that is now bought from Microsoft and do your own measurements.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/systeminformationutilities.mspx
You can do this simply by running various applications and measuring the
"CPU time" needed and compare various versions of programs.You can also
measure the ram needed. With still other programs you can measure disk
activity for a program to load.
CPU time is actually the amount of time needed for the cpu to "think" in
order to launch an application, or do its various functions.
To do this correctly you must do both cold boot measurements and relaunching
of the applications, since after the first time applications usually load
faster.
There is no magic to this.... and only through this method can you really
see the difference with numbers.
One of my recent measurements put to rest the claim that firefox was as fast
as Internet explorer. IE7 needs half the process time to load than firefox,
mostly because parts of it is already preloaded by the OS. That is
logical... and even some mozilla users accept this. But what I also have
seen,
is that if you visit say the same 10 sites, with both browsers, and then
compare the CPU times, firefox shows that it needed more CPU time to
accomplish the same task.
Now as for office2007 you may say.. "it may be slower but it has more
functionality... therefore bloat is justifiable" I disagree. There are ways
to make
applications lean and fast and yet retain functionality.. but this needs
extra work and time OR good planning from the start... and it seems that 4
years from office 2003 to office 2007 was not enough to do this. OR (most
probable) they just didn't care enough to put the effort in it.
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
And you know this how? What benchmark testing did you do?
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After furious head scratching, NewFox asked:
| bloat is the reason....
|
|
| || Hi!
||
||
||
|| When using winword 2007 with multiple windows opened or even
|| self-standing I have noticed that it often takes a few moments until
|| the current opened window (in word) regains responsiveness. This is
|| quite annoying when you often switch between windows in order to
|| look for references etc. in other programs or text-files.
||
||
||
|| Is this a common problem? What can I do to avoid it?
||
||
|| My system:
|| WinXP prof
|| notebook: C2D 2.0Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 160GB HD, ATI mobility 1600
||
|| Kind regards!
|| SAP
