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Even crusty old Microsoft Excel parallelises worksheet recalculation.

• smitherfield 10y ago
  Sure, but Excel is presumably one of the most optimized (in terms of the amount of money and brainpower devoted to optimizing it) applications in existence.
  • caf 10y ago
    That's not the feeling you get when you use it, it seems more like the underlying engine hasn't really changed a great deal in 20 years.
    • smitherfield 10y ago
      That's the price of backward compatibility. But I think it's a bit of a "Seinfeld is unfunny"[1] situation; if Microsoft decided to save on the nine-figure budget and outsource Excel development to, say, your favorite purveyor of antivirus software, you'd notice real fast. [1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny (apologies for the TVTropes link at night!)