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I'm probably not the target audience for this, but "Google Sheets-like performance" does not sound like a selling point to me. Historically, their performance

I'm probably not the target audience for this, but "Google Sheets-like performance" does not sound like a selling point to me. Historically, their performance has been downright awful (especially in non-Chrome browsers).

mcs_ 6y ago
Not in my experience. I copy and paste large datasets directly from other sources. Performance is constant with multiple tabs. At work, we strongly rely on G Sheets as a daily base tool for accounting, data reconciliation, reporting in general. How many rows do you usually manipulate at the same time?
- rowsncolumns 6y ago
  For a web based excel tool, Google Sheets has really good performance IMO. Other alternative is Microsoft Online Excel, which is quite slow, bloated and cough horrible. If you have highly interactive data in cells, (eg: svg graphs), scroll performance can be improved by enabling `snap`. With this only one row/column will scroll at a time.
- antisthenes 6y ago
  I tried manipulating small datasets (overclocking results by CPU), under 500 rows, and the performance was abysmal. Maybe not performance, but responsiveness ? The UI was lagging. It was in Firefox, a few years ago, and I never went back to it. MS Office 2010 is much snappier.
- JSavageOne 6y ago
  What bothers me is the startup time. The Time to Interactive is about 10 seconds on my Google Sheet with 850 rows and 3 columns. This is just for personal use to store the names of songs that I like, so the slowness is annoying enough to where I'm looking for alternatives.
robbiejs 6y ago
Google Sheets performance is terrible indeed. I carefully studied G. Sheets for our data grid product DatagridXL (https://datagridxl.com https://datagridxl.com) and many times I was shocked by how slow and old it feels when performing basic operations. You get to feel a certain kind of pride when your bootstrapped business product has better performance than the multi billion dollar company product. Of course, nowhere near the amount of features G sheets has.

mcs_ 6y ago

Not in my experience. I copy and paste large datasets directly from other sources. Performance is constant with multiple tabs. At work, we strongly rely on G Sheets as a daily base tool for accounting, data reconciliation, reporting in general. How many rows do you usually manipulate at the same time?

rowsncolumns 6y ago
For a web based excel tool, Google Sheets has really good performance IMO. Other alternative is Microsoft Online Excel, which is quite slow, bloated and cough horrible. If you have highly interactive data in cells, (eg: svg graphs), scroll performance can be improved by enabling `snap`. With this only one row/column will scroll at a time.
antisthenes 6y ago
I tried manipulating small datasets (overclocking results by CPU), under 500 rows, and the performance was abysmal. Maybe not performance, but responsiveness ? The UI was lagging. It was in Firefox, a few years ago, and I never went back to it. MS Office 2010 is much snappier.
JSavageOne 6y ago
What bothers me is the startup time. The Time to Interactive is about 10 seconds on my Google Sheet with 850 rows and 3 columns. This is just for personal use to store the names of songs that I like, so the slowness is annoying enough to where I'm looking for alternatives.

robbiejs 6y ago

Google Sheets performance is terrible indeed. I carefully studied G. Sheets for our data grid product DatagridXL (https://datagridxl.com https://datagridxl.com) and many times I was shocked by how slow and old it feels when performing basic operations. You get to feel a certain kind of pride when your bootstrapped business product has better performance than the multi billion dollar company product. Of course, nowhere near the amount of features G sheets has.