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Re: BOOM!

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: BOOM!
Date	2017-04-15 21:10 +0000
Organization	O.W.L.
Message-ID	<azc800g3.bh@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
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Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
> owl wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There were no speed issues, even with low memory.  Excel and Access have 
>>> always been exceedingly fast on Windows.  Apparently the older versions 
>>> were written in C and assembler.
>>> 
>>> http://www.lextrait.com/vincent/implementations.html
>>> 
>>> Access SELECTS and sorts best every db I've ever used.
> 
> I wonder... has DFS used MySQL (which used to beat the crap out of other
> databases for speed), or Oracle, or PostgreSQL, or sqlite, or a NoSQL
> database?
> 
>> Obviously Excel is using a different allocation strategy.  SC allocates
>> for pointers for every cell in the range bounded by A0 and the outermost
>> vertex cell.  So the question becomes, if Excel doesn't even allocate
>> pointers for those cells, do *they* even exist?  I'm going to dedicate
>> a 1TB usb drive for swap and give it a test run under sc using Excel's
>> approximate row/column limits.  A nearly empty file should come in
>> at under 150 GB even assuming some reserve allocation. 
> 
> Makes no sense why any implementation would allow that.
> 

Allow what?

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BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-14 17:07 +0000
  Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-14 13:33 -0400
    Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-14 17:49 +0000
      Re: BOOM! fr314159@gmail.com - 2017-04-14 13:00 -0700
        Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-14 20:26 +0000
          Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-15 10:00 -0400
      Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-14 19:58 -0400
        Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-15 00:14 +0000
          Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-14 20:23 -0400
            Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-15 00:51 +0000
              Re: BOOM! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-14 18:02 -0700
              Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-14 21:30 -0400
                Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-15 01:48 +0000
                Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-15 10:00 -0400
                Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-15 19:29 +0000
                Re: BOOM! Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-15 16:24 -0400
                Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-15 21:10 +0000
                Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-15 18:42 -0400
                Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-15 23:31 +0000
                Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-15 20:29 -0400
                Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-16 05:25 +0000
                Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-16 19:49 -0400
                Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-17 00:51 +0000
                Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-17 12:54 -0400
                Re: BOOM! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 10:06 -0700
                Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-17 19:28 -0400
                Re: BOOM! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 10:26 -0700
                Ping DFS! - Re: BOOM! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 10:34 -0700
                Re: Ping DFS! - Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-17 19:25 -0400
                Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-17 17:29 +0000
                Re: BOOM! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 10:34 -0700
                Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-17 17:49 +0000
                Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-17 19:25 -0400
          Re: BOOM! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-14 17:37 -0700
          Re: BOOM! Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-15 06:41 -0400
  Re: BOOM! Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2017-04-14 13:34 -0400
  Re: BOOM! John McCue <jmccue@jmcnet2.bstnma.east.verizon.net> - 2017-04-15 21:33 +0000
    Re: BOOM! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-17 07:09 -0500
    Re: BOOM! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 08:23 -0700

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