On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 07:31:31PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
> I have an 1800+-line spreadsheet in OpenOffice Calc. Each line has a few
> calculated cells, and then there are two more pages with ~100K comparisons
> each. There are also three graphs. It totally can not handle a dataset of
> this size. I'm talking lots of memory (2 1/3 GiB), the system's swapping
> like mad, and everything's laggy. Is there another spreadsheet I can use,
> or maybe some techniques to make it usable with large datasets?
>
> I have a log of 52000+ points (and growing) that I graph in gnuplot. It
> takes about 12 MiB RAM and 0.7 seconds to draw the plot, so it is possible
> for a program to be miserly with RAM and runtime at the expense of
> interface.
OO.o? Gag. No wonder you're experiencing problems. I'd try Gnumeric or
KSpread. There's just *got* to be less overhead on those.
Paul
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