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Re:Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets by jeffbee on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:03PM (#30393407)
I tried to load the CSV that I most recently imported into Google Sheets into this hosted Grist and it choked. The behavior of the progress bar implies some kind of super-linear algorithm.

The most important component of "alternative to Google Sheets" is function. "Open core" is an aesthetic matter of little interest to most users.

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Re:Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets by heavyset_go on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:36PM (#30393591)
It's a Node app, so CPU-bound work will run linearly on a single thread unless work was done to break up work into multiple processes or worker threads.
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Re:Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets by jeffbee on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:05PM (#30393762)
It’s behavior was more suggestive of Zeno's paradox than of single-threadedness.
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Re:Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets by paulfitz on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:24PM (#30393861)
(disclosure: Grist employee) You're exactly right https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/blob/7f1f8fc9e60a2e1... - sorry the import choked!
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Re:Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets by troynt on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:28PM (#30393881)
This was my experience with a well. I was testing with a 36MB dataset and it was choking. The CPU was sitting at 4% usage.
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