Re: large document support

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

>         I searched the list but i have not seen anyone mention this
> before, but is there a "usable" limit to a document that gnumeric
> can work with?
> I recently installed the 1.2.0 release, and feature wise it is very good. 
> However, it takes over twice as long to open a csv file compared to excel
> on identical hardware.  The box is a p4 2GHz with 512MB running RH9, the
> file is 10MB with over 30 cols and over 40,000 rows.  After it is opened,
> certain operations like changing the cell formatting of a col or even just
> saving the file in standard gnumeric xml format brings the box to its
> knees and require me to kill gnumeric after waiting for a long time.
> Has anyone else seen this problem, and is there a way to work around it?

I experience this problem.  I spend a good portion of my day massaging 
really large files, and gnumeric chokes up on anything >~10,000 rows (on a 
2Ghz w/1GB RAM).

Open Office is MUCH faster for large files, except the whole 32,767 limit 
- but one can split files over sheets and thus create as of files as one 
wants.