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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
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Subject: Re: Sluggishness when altering a large IMPROV worksheet
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Date: 15 May 91 07:00:46 GMT
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Robin Bush writes
> 
> I have an Improv worksheet containing 3 categories, 50 groups and 10  
equations.  
> I find that once the equations are in place, making any subsequent structural  
> changes to the worksheet can take a half hour or longer!

Pretty polite of you to call it "sluggish" if it takes half an hour.

First of all, I have no idea why, but I'm not above speculating :-)

Is it possible that you have lots of processes running and you are short
on memory and the operating system is just thrashing terribly?  Is
your disk almost full?  Does the disk make a lot of noise during this
half hour?  Is anybody printing to a printer hooked up to your machine?
Um, let's see, what else.  Maybe your document just triggers one of those
"worst case scenarios" that we applications developers hate so much :-)

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