Office2007 on CrossOver on Arch64---Fast!!

pixellany · 12-01-2009, 08:53 AM

I just set up my laptop with Arch 64-bit.

When I installed Office 2007, using CrossOver v.8.0.0, I noticed that the various Office applications open MUCH faster than the equivalent setup on Arch 32.

I don't know if other things are faster, but the difference in Office is much larger.

Anyone know why?

jefro · 12-01-2009, 08:06 PM

The very basic answer would be it is faster because it doesn't take as many resources. That could be from many reasons. I suspect that when they created parts of the applications they used tools that were newer. What I am suggesting is that something or things were compiled with newer tools or even more closely tied to the hardware.

If a program is compiled with the latest compiler on a newer machine and you have a newer machine it would run faster most likely.