openoffice update missing x86_64
Brian Gerst
bgerst at didntduck.org
Thu Mar 31 17:25:09 UTC 2005
Cimmo wrote:
> Dan Williams ha scritto:
>
>> Nope. OpenOffice.org has never compiled or run under 64-bit
>> architectures because it is seriously not 64-bit clean. That work is
>> ongoing (part of its here on a hard drive on my desk) and is being
>> committed to the "cws_src680_ooo64bit02" workspace upstream in OOo CVS.
>> OOo runs on 64-bit platforms as a 32-bit program.
>>
>> It will probably be FC6 time before anything useful on the OOo 64-bit
>> front comes out.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
> This is why on my x86_64 native fedora core4t1 OOo is so slow to load?
> With same hardware and a 32bit OS i386 packages run faster?
> Or it's because it's a very immature pre-release?
The load slowness is likely because the 32-bit libraries (ie. glibc) are
not already loaded in memory.
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Brian Gerst
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