On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:42 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > Here are the profile data without any symbols. As you can see, it's > mostly the shared library loader. Nearly all of OOo's startup and timing woes boil down to shared library relocations :-(. Hence the redhat custom swriter/scalc/sdraw prelink-friendly launchers, and the novell -Bdirect work. Not much we can do inside OOo to help such dlopened stuff I guess. C.