Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> While its obviously desirable to improve all aspects of performance and > the compactness of the code, I think marketing should also make it clear > to potential customers that spreadsheets that take 10s of seconds to > open in Excel and minutes in Calc are a very small and specialised > section of the market. I have been modelling the pay and tax for a small > business this week in Calc on Linux and this takes under 10 seconds to > load from double clicking a desktop icon including loading up Calc > itself. But he didn't say it took three hours to load the spreadsheet. He said it took three hours to run one particular set of calculations on it, which in Excel run in thirty seconds. Nor is this going to be simple to fix. Michael Meeks is clearly a serious hacker, and all his efforts only got the time down to an hour. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
