Invisible wrote:
> Anyway, somebody asked why people hate M$. And I gave an answer: because
> M$ does not consider performance or reliability to be "important" enough
> to make any attempt to improve them.

You're giving contradictory statements:

> Thinking about it, the load routine probably does just dump a bunch of 
> pointers directly into Word, which probably then trips the rendering 
> engine over or something

They load a data structure from disk right into memory *because* they want
performance. Having the disk format similar to the in-memory structure was
done since back in Word for Windows 2.1 because it was the only way to be
faster than competitors.

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