Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 106551
Slow responce of Writer when firest click on incorrectly spelled word
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
When user right clicks on underlined incorrectly spelled word (to correct it or ignore) first time in session, Writer responds slowly (especially on low-end hardware). If user immediately clicks another word, Writer responds fast, but if user edits text, another time Writer also responds slowly
I guess, Linguistic related libraries have to be loaded and dictionaries have to be read from the HD when the first call of the auto spelling context menu is performed. MRU->TL: is there any space for improvement in this area?
Hardly because the problem description is somewhat vague. Indeed the very fist time a new dialog/menu/... is opened the respective resources and/or libraries are loaded on demand. But that applies only once and after that it should be fast. Thus the only reason for it being slow should be that the actual spell checking for the current word may be slow. I don't know about the internals of the spell checker implementation thus it also could be possible that it implements a very small cache for already checked words. Thus words that are already checked once and are still found in the cache would yield fast responses whereas other words would give slower responses. Also if the memory is very limited it might be possible that required memory is constantly swapped in and out. Thus without having a machine to reproduce the behavior it is hard to guess about anything. TL->MRU: Do we have a machine where this type of problem can be reproduced? TL->annulen: Can you give more details about your machine? For example CPU type clock speed and available memory as a reference?
Celeron 566 MHz (Coppermine), 256 MB RAM