Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 18, 2005 03:23 AM
I was surprised to find that OpenOffice Calc was considered the winner in charts and had no performance-related complaints. Perhaps it's then just me, but I've always found especially its charting to be horrible performer. This both with 1.x and the 2.0 beta, when used with various versions of Fedora Core (the 2.0 beta with FC4test).
Try this simple test: create an empty spreadsheet, copy =rand() to its first 1000 rows and draw a line chart over the range.
Calc 2.0 beta freezes for nearly 30 seconds calculating this on my 1.6GHz Centrino laptop. The same happens when I try to resize the just-created chart object or manipulate it in nearly any way.
In contrast, Gnumeric's response is immediate, with any calculation it might be making so fast that I can not measure it in wall-clock terms.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 18, 2005 03:23 AMTry this simple test: create an empty spreadsheet, copy =rand() to its first 1000 rows and draw a line chart over the range.
Calc 2.0 beta freezes for nearly 30 seconds calculating this on my 1.6GHz Centrino laptop. The same happens when I try to resize the just-created chart object or manipulate it in nearly any way.
In contrast, Gnumeric's response is immediate, with any calculation it might be making so fast that I can not measure it in wall-clock terms.
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