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Show HN: Accelerate Excel – 100x faster spreadsheets
- justincormack 12y agoThe problem with spreadsheets is generally maintainability and testing not performance. At least if it is slow people might rewrite it on a better platform. I am sure there is a market though.
- karamazov 12y agoWe're hoping that better performance will let users build well-designed spreadsheets - they'll be able to show more steps and use less archaic formulas without having to worry about slowdowns.
- davidgerard 12y agoIf you can speed up serious financial sector spreadsheets - hideous baroque constructions of formulae and VBA - they will pay you any amount of money for this.
- Artemis2 12y agoHow are you accelerating Excel so much, in a way that Microsoft wouldn't have thought about? No trashing, I'm just curious, and the website doesn't tell much apart from "demolishing the bottlenecks".
- karamazov 12y agoWe wrote a static optimizer for spreadsheets - this looks at the entire sheet and reduces computational complexity where it can. Excel's built-in functions are optimized to run fast individually, not to work in concert. (Also, some of them are just slow for no good reason.)
- Artemis2 12y agoThat's an interesting approach, thank you!
- dwash 12y agoOS X Numbers needs something like this. I use it for a few odd things and it is always so slow once you get a few hundred rows...