In this specific case we are referring to one of the most loved and used office solutions at the moment. It is an open source project that also in certain types of use needs higher hardware requirements than we could imagine at first. This suite is made up of several programs among which we find a text editoran application for design mathematical formulasdatabases, and even for draw.
What we want to tell you with all this is that the current productivity suites are not only focused on working with numerical data or texts. They generally go a step further and require work with more demanding elements such as objects, boards, images or even videos. For this, and as it is not difficult to imagine, a certain consumption of computer resources is required for everything to work smoothly. Especially if we have an old or somewhat limited computer, even working with LibreOffice we will sometimes see performance problems.
Precisely to solve all this we are going to talk about an interesting functionality that is deactivated by default. If we see that we find these errors related to the performance of office programs, we may be interested in activating this feature that brings out more take advantage of the CPU and GPU of our PC. Specifically, we are going to talk about the possibility of using the function called OpenCL.
What is OpenCL and how it helps LibreOffice
The first thing we need to understand exactly is what this function we are referring to is about. The same, OpenCLcan be extremely useful not only in Libre Office, but in many other programs that implement it by default. It must be said that here we refer to a api that allows applications such as the aforementioned suite to access multiple processors simultaneously to improve your performance. It is true that a priori this can negatively affect the rest of the software running at that moment.
However, if what we need is to get the most out of certain tasks corresponding to LibreOffice, we may be interested in activating it. And it is that it is necessary to take into consideration that when we speak of processors, here we refer to the use of both cores of the CPUslike your own Computer GPU. Therefore, in certain circumstances or without we recommend activating this element and thus improve the performance of the productivity suite.
In the first place, for this what we do is access the control panel from which we can start any program included here as Writer or calc. However, instead of running any of these applications, we access the Tools / Options menu option. In the different drop-down lists that we see in the left panel, there is one precisely called LibreOffice. we open it to find the OpenCL option.
From here if we take a look at the right panel, we find the functionality as such but that by default it is disabled. We will have to click on the corresponding selector so that from that moment on the programs use the CPU and GPU of the PC. All this in order to improve its overall performance.