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3 seconds takes LibreOffice Write to load on my "old" ThinkPad P50.

First load or was it already loaded in your session?

Took 21 seconds on my 6 year old laptop with an i3 and 8GB of RAM. No SSD though, just a 5400rpm HDD. The second load was about 4 seconds though.

Even with a good SSD and processor, LibreOffice takes a lot of time for the first fire. Then, as long as it's in the memory, you can fire it relatively instantly but, it's not "3 seconds flat".

YMMV,for me it starts up instantly.

Yeah, I have it on an SSD and it took six seconds to load. (And I have run it before since the last reboot, but it was closed and probably purged from memory since then.)

Kinda reminds me, back in the day Microsoft would add a startup service that would preload Internet Explorer and Word (I think those two) into memory, because they started so slowly by default. Trying to get a leg up on the competition, I suppose, since obviously Firefox or what have you wasn't pulling similar tricks. I'd disable stuff like that in msconfig to get a faster boot time, but was always shocked by how slow Word would load after that.

LibreOffice also has a tray icon pre-loader you can enable on slower machines.

Interesting, I had no idea! Going to look into this. (I don't need it, but from a technical standpoint it should be pretty interesting.)

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