From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T13:59:37+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:19:24PM +0900, Keith Gaughan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:38:34AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 
> > > ...most of which is down to Windows itself, not Excel. Excel's
> > > contribution to that lag isn't, I believe, all that great. So in this
> > > regard, your complaint is more to do with GDI and so on than with Excel
> > > itself.
> > 
> > Excel doesn't run so well on Linux, so I'll just leave that lying where
> > it is.
> 
> In fairness, if you're judging it's performance based on running it in
> Wine, that's not really a fair comparison. :-)

I'm judging it based on running it on Windows.  My point is that
divorcing it from the only environment in which it runs (natively) is
less than strictly sporting of you, when trying to discuss its
performance characteristics (or lack thereof).

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