Re: performance issue

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Andreas Guelzow wrote:

> Hi Allin,
>
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 20:23 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> > In working on the file I noticed a rapid degradation in
> > performance as the edits proceeded [...]
> >
> > This was with gnumeric 1.10.14, compiled with gcc 4.6.0, on Linux
> > 2.6.38.4, glibc 2.13, GTK 2.24.4. I'd be happy to provide any
> > potentially useful diagnostics if anyone can tell me what might be
> > needed.
>
> Is this the 1.10.14 release version or taken from git prior of the
> release? (There have been quite a few changes affecting xlsx import in
> the 1.10.14 release. So it would be nice to know whether they are in
> your version.)

I built gnumeric from the release tarball, dowloaded March 29.

> Do you also observe this performance hit if you disable automatic
> recalculation?

I've now tried that and it didn't seem to make much difference.

> Personally I suspect that in the xlsx import the style structure that is
> usually optimized in Gnumeric is created without that optimization.
>
> It would be great if you could file this issue in bugzilla and if you
> could attach a sample file that shows this performance hit.

OK, thanks. I've created Bug 648868 with a test file.

Allin Cottrell