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From: mpip@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Robert Annechiarico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
Message-ID: <4016@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 89 19:19:38 GMT
References: <7940@ditmela.oz>
Reply-To: mpip@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Carleen)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <7940@ditmela.oz> hans@ditmela.UUCP (Hans Eriksson) writes:
>
>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 !
>
>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.

I've found the same thing on a similar system: Mac Plus, 2.5MB.  All the
spreadsheets that I happen to use involve database commands.  The
calculations take about twice as long.

It's a shame; I would very much like to use the new features of 2.2, but
I can't take the performance hit.

Eric Carleen
University of Rochester Medical Center
(716)-275-5391
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