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From: hans@ditmela.oz (Hans Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
Message-ID: <7940@ditmela.oz>
Date: 13 Nov 89 07:59:06 GMT
Reply-To: hans@ditmela.UUCP (Hans Eriksson)
Organization: CSIRO/DIT, Melbourne, Australia (on leave from SICS, Sweden)
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I was getting nearer the upper limit of my Excel 1.5 for each day. I have a
big bookkeeping spreadsheat which take around 30 minutes to recalculate. I
had started looking into WingZ when I saw Excel 2.2

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 !

I have never heard of a new version that was slower than its predecesssor,
so I wondered what I had done wrong. Maybe I haven't?  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.

Anyone that has the same experience? Anyone that is happier with 2.2?

/hans
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Hans Eriksson (hans@ditmela.oz.au)
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