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Article #7834Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
From: Mike Engber
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 20:44
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 20:44
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>Seems like you are saying that Excel 2.2 is faster >than 1.5 on the faster machines. > >I tried 2.2 on our MacII and SE/30 and it was slow >as a dead dog also on those machines. > >Has ANYONE run faster with 2.2 than 1.5, or at >least at comparable speed? I have a spreadsheet that runs much faster on my SE/30 with v2.2 than it did with v1.5. I believe it's because v2.2 only recalculates the cells that have changed rather than everything. I used to have to keep autocalculate turned off - now it's fast enough that I don't have to. -ME
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!thylacine!engber From: engber@thylacine.CS.WISC.EDU (Mike Engber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5 Message-ID: <9154@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 15 Nov 89 20:44:56 GMT References: <7940@ditmela.oz> <4016@ur-cc.UUCP> <14211@jumbo.dec.com> <7990@ditmela.oz> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: engber@thylacine.CS.WISC.EDU (Mike Engber) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 16