[LUAU] Star Office vs Open Office?

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

There is another issue that may affect the performance of OOo; it has 
something to do with, from my own experience, the "choice" of Athlons vs 
Pentiums.

Several years ago, when running the pre-1.0 versions of Mozilla, I 
noticed a huge difference in performance between Athlon and PIII.  The 
Athlons have a much better memory-caching mechanism than the PIII (which 
is the best processor in the Pentium family, including P4).

Most Linux programs (including Netscape) do not show noticeable 
difference between Athlon and PIII, after adjusting for equivalent 
clockspeeds.  But the difference with regard to Mozilla was very astounding.

Athlons/Opterons are now the first choices for Linux professionals to 
build servers as well as Linux desktops.  But if you are stuck with the 
Pentium processors, perhaps a more mature code such as StarOffice may be 
a better choice than OpenOffice.

(Microsoft and Intel used to share secrets that are not available to 
AMD.  Illegal, but unenforceable.  Now with Linux on the rise, AMD's 
handicaps are turning into big advantages.)  wayne