http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-08-08-libreoffice-3-6-0.html
As someone said, a lot of legacy code is being removed/cleaned/simplyfied. Kernel could be an issue when it comes to swappiness, but not when it comes to the amount of ,memory that a given version of $CC will use to compile a given package, provided that $HARDWARE and $CFLAGS are constant.
