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Article #7710Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
From: Robert Annechiarico
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 19:19
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 19:19
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In article <7940@ditmela.oz> hans@ditmela.UUCP (Hans Eriksson) writes: > >My first go was just importing my old 1.5 files into Excel 2.2 and run them >as they were. > >BUT IT WAS S L O W E R ! > >According to the >ads, 2.2. should be ~40% faster than 1.5. But not for me. I have a Plus >with 2.5 MB and a HD20SC. > >Maybe 2.2 is not good at handling a lot of =DSUM(), maybe it's something >else. I've found the same thing on a similar system: Mac Plus, 2.5MB. All the spreadsheets that I happen to use involve database commands. The calculations take about twice as long. It's a shame; I would very much like to use the new features of 2.2, but I can't take the performance hit. Eric Carleen University of Rochester Medical Center (716)-275-5391 Bitnet: heartedc@uorhbv Internet: mpip@uhura.cc.rochester.edu "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away". - Tom Waits
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!mpip From: mpip@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Robert Annechiarico) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5 Message-ID: <4016@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 13 Nov 89 19:19:38 GMT References: <7940@ditmela.oz> Reply-To: mpip@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Carleen) Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 28