On 11/2/05, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got the suggestion to forward this to this list, so here it goes.
>
> Ciao,
>         Marco
>
> Wednesday, November 2, 2005 M. Fioretti wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 10:56:46 AM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta
> > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> >> I don't know how much of the problem is intrinsic in the fileformat
> >> itself, and how much of it is nonoptimal coding in OOo. It would be
> >> interesting how other suites (e.g.  KOffice, which I have to try
> >> sooner or later) fare on this file :)
>
> > Actually, the KOffice developers are already discussing this:
>
> >     http://lists.kde.org/?t=113043237800002&r=1&w=2

> Maybe we could forward this thread to the Calc developers,
> or at least make them aware of it.

Just to give this list a summary, this discussion stems from this ZDNet article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=119

which basically states that Calc is very (x4) slow to load a file with
a large amount of data, and the KOffice folks are somewhat happy that
KSpread did a better job than Calc.  They also mention that Gnumeric
is the fastest of the three in terms of opening a large file.

My opinion?  Calc's slow file loading/saving is no secret.  There are
those who claim that the test was unfairly done, invalid, bload is
good etc.  But, it is a fact that we are slow in this area, and we
need to fix this.

Now with that said, it's just a simple matter of finding people to
analyze the code, do performance profiling, and things like that.  I'm
guilty of myself not doing any of this, but if I had time I'd spent
fair amount of time profiling the code.

Also, refer to Niklas's comment on this list a while ago:

http://sc.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=1598

Regards,
Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida
OpenOffice.org Calc contributor
http://kohei.us/ooo/

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