I've been trying hard to avoid this conversation as it's probably the
1000th time I've seen something similar on the user list but coming from
a developer/QA perspective, I think I can say something brief. The
possible gains for these "power users" would probably be small and the
amount of time to developer a true 64 bit version (on top of these
requests to support 8 cores or whatever else that's requested) would be
IMMENSE. We're talking about tens if not hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of developer and QA time. If you have a spreadsheet that
is running that miserably I would recommend that any of these "power
users" investigate if they are using spreadsheet correctly (vs. masking
a database within spreadsheet, which is incorrect and in which case they
should be learning how to use Database). I do have a few spreadsheets
that are 40ish megs with quite a few charts and lots of formulas, but
even these I could likely convert to a database if I took the time and
probably see some gains in performance - but even these run "fast
enough" and I would never ask developers to waste their time for these
outlier cases of having insane spreadsheets.
At my old work my employer had made a 1 GB Spreadsheet and always
complained about Excel's limitations - at which point I would quickly
point out "no, although I'd love to pin this on Microsoft, this is in
fact bad implementation on your part." I don't know the details of any
of these Spreadsheets but from what I've seen in the past, these
statements have rung true in most cases.
No offense at all, I encourage open conversation but I tend to see a one
side conversation "THERE SHOULD BE A 64 BIT FLYING LIBREOFFICE THAT CAN
BAKE ME A CAKE AND CALCULATE A QUADRILLION FORMULAS IN 0.0000001 SECONDS
USING ALL 16 OF MY CORES!" - without the other side of the equation -
"such a product would be incredibly costly and there are thousands of
much more important things to get done that will benefit a lot more users."
All the best,
Joel
On 11/08/2013 06:30 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2013-11-04 6:09 PM, josip prusina <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi. From where download 64 bit version libreoffice for windows 8.1. 64
bit.
? Link or manual tutorial for download 64 bit version..
Why do you think you need a 64bit version?
Do you have any documents that are larger than 4GB? If so, then you need
to rethink how you are using Office Applications...
I think the issue is, are there any technical issues that do not make it
easy to have 64-bit LibreOffice packages on Windows?
There are some technical issues, and Firefox is also distributed as a
32-bit package as well (Though you can look and find a 64-bit packages in
the nightly builds, so power users are happy),
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/12/22/mozilla-backpedals-on-firefox-64-bit-for-windows-will-keep-nightly-builds-coming-after-all/
As described at the link above, it's good to figure out with numbers
whether there are cases that a 64-bit LibreOffice has actual benefits (big
document, etc). Having a 64-bit LibreOffice for Windows will help retain
some power users.
Simos
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