Re: slow search

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:12:52AM -0800, Kirill Sapelkin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Gnumeric 1.2, part of the the slackware 9.1, running under Gnome 2.4,
> is very slow to search.  Searching for a string in  sample
> fn-random.gnumeric spreadsheet, part of the Gnumeric 1.2 source
> distribution takes about 12 seconds.  My machine is a PIII 600MHz,
> 128MB RAM.  We set up an AMD 2GHz, 256MB RAM machine the same way and
> search times were similar.  String searches on larger spread sheet
> (20000 rows)  take around 40 seconds.  Too slow to be of any use.
>
> This Gnumeric, and Gnome 2.4 were Slackware distribution binaries, not
> compiled by me.
>
> Is this normal speed?  Are there any remedies?

That sounds odd.  Can you supply a test sheet and a detailed set of
instructions on exactly _how_ you are doing the search ?  bugzilla
is the best place for this.

We'll definitely have a look

Thanks
    Jody