Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!benw
From: benw@microsoft.UUCP (Benjamin Waldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why is Excel 2.2 is a magnitude (or two) slower than Excel 1.5
Summary: Bug in database functions fixed in version 2.2a (free upgrade)
Message-ID: <9110@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 02:52:12 GMT
References: <7940@ditmela.oz> <4016@ur-cc.UUCP> <14211@jumbo.dec.com>
Reply-To: benw@microsoft.UUCP (Benjamin Waldman)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <14211@jumbo.dec.com> mcjones@srcf0a.UUCP (Paul McJones) writes:
>In <7940@ditmela.oz>, Hans Eriksson (hans@ditmela.oz.au) says he's 
>found that Excel 2.2 runs much more slowly than Excel 1.5 on his 
>Mac Plus with 2.5MB RAM and an HD20SC.  He conjectures:
>
>    Maybe 2.2 is not good at handling a lot of =DSUM(), maybe it's 
>    something else.
>
>In <4016@ur-cc.UUCP>, Eric Carleen (mpip@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) 
>replies that his spreadsheets, which all involve datbase commands, 
>take about twice as long with version 2.2 as with version 1.5.  He 
>too has a Mac Plus with 2.5MB of RAM.

There is a bug in Excel 2.2 that causes some database functions to take
a long time to recalculate.  This bug is fixed in Excel 2.2a, an
upgrade which is available free to all registered users of Excel 2.2.

Other than this (and contrary to what others have written on the net),
Excel 2.2 recalculates FASTER than Excel 1.5.

Ben Waldman
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
Applications Division

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