On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 16:19 +0100, Niklas Nebel wrote: > On 11/19/09 16:00, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:25 +0100, Erich Neuwirth wrote: > >> Hello, > >> Excel 2007 already does parallel computing. > >> A spreadsheet program internally creates a dependency graph > >> of the cells. A dependency graph also knows which parts > >> of a complex calculation are not dependent on each other, > >> and therefore can be run in parallel. > > > > Gotcha. So Excel's formula calculation is already multi-threaded. This > > is an area we should still work on to improve with Calc. > > The idea has of course come up before (see > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/Performance/misc), but it > hasn't been evaluated in much detail yet.
Yeah, I remember Michael Meeks was talking about this once before. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this and get more concrete idea of where to go next. We need to get this done eventually. Kohei -- Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc. <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
