On Monday 16 October 2006 08:03, "Lorenzo Milesi" 
<lorenzo.milesi@gmail.com> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice.org 
natively available for AMD64':
> > It finally happened: openoffice is expected to compile and work
> > natively on amd64.
> I had seen it this morning, and I though "What?!" :)
> Which are the real advantages in compiling OOo instead of using -bin?

Well, it certainly looks and feels different when compiled with the kde 
useflag, or at least did on my x86 laptop.

Also, the version I compiled on my memory-starved 2.4GHz P4 laptop started 
5-10 times faster then the binary version installed on my 2.2GHz 4GB RAM 
2x Dual-core Opteron monster.

OOo-bin sucked so much on AMD64 (for me, it's subjective) that I loved it 
when KOffice finally became usable for me.

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