Re: [libreoffice-users] Base slowness and Java update

On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 14:17 +0100, John Talbut wrote: 

> On 14/10/11 12:18, Mark Stanton wrote:
> > I think you will find that most of the industry, and nearly all of
> > the open source community will be very unlikely to believe what
> > Oracle says on this subject.  It would be wise to consider that they
> > may have a point.
> All the more reason for us to do as much of the troubleshooting as we
> can!  My guess is that it is not anything big, maybe a regression since
> this seems to have happened before, and if we can pinpoint it, it should
> not be too difficult to fix it or get someone at OpenJDK to do so.
>
> On 14/10/11 12:41, Ferry Toth wrote:
> > All this is true, but you might want to consider if you really want
> > to use the built-in HSQLDB database for serious stuff. It is all
> > java, which will never be really fast. Even with the java issues
> > solved.
> Well, it depends what you call serious.  I am sure that people with 
> really big databases will use separate applications anyway.  For my 
> purposes, with around 2000 records, base was perfectly adequate in terms 
> of speed until OpenJDK-6b23.

After using Base and earlier Access, I have move to using PostgreSQL and
MySQL/MariaDB side by side as the engine. I only use Base as a front end
for reports and forms. My largest table is about 3100 entries. 

> Whether or not base moves away from HSQLDB in the future, in the mean 
> time I think we need to get this one fixed and get base running as well 
> as we can.

True, the issue needs to be resolved somehow. 

> John



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Jay Lozier
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