Thread: Calibre: I do not get it
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Old 12-31-2017, 09:25 PM   #139
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Originally Posted by barryem View Post
My laptop has a Core I7 and a very fast SSD and with just a few books it takes about 5 seconds to load. My old laptop with a Core I3 and a 5400 RPM hard drive took close to a minute to load, also with very few books. I think it was on this or my previous laptop that I made the decision not to use Calibre as a librarian. Although I have to admit I really prefer doing it myself anyway.

If I hit the link to run Chrome it's on the screen instantly ready to go. Open Office, a very slow loading program, loads quite a bit faster than Calibre. This thing can reboot in 11 seconds.

This is nothing against Calibre. I use it for conversions and I depend on it and I often recommend it. But it's not a fast loading program.
It's mostly the disk and filesystem speed, not the CPU speed that matters.

Like I said, my primary laptop takes 3.5 seconds with a core i3 and an SSD (for comparison, LibreOffice takes about 2 seconds). For fun I just broke out my other laptop which is a core i5 with a 5400 RPM drive and it takes 35 seconds to launch.

Both with mirrors of the same library (3200ish books), running Ubuntu 16.04 with ext4.
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