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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by metadat on Thursday June 27, 2024 @11:49PM (#40817522)
The last time I tried on a Mac a few years ago, it definitely couldn't handle that many. Maybe I was holding it wrong?

Even a million seems embarrassingly puny these days, considering a webpage can have a million checkboxes rendered in only a moment.

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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by archiewood on Friday June 28, 2024 @12:14AM (#40817648)
Excel for mac is (intentionally?) crippled.

Any serious Excel user has a PC.

One of the few places remaining where Windows > Mac

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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by supriyo-biswas on Friday June 28, 2024 @12:03AM (#40817589)
Please leave out the snide remarks in spirit of the HN guidelines[1].

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by metadat on Friday June 28, 2024 @03:35PM (#40824349)
I appreciate your efforts to uphold quality, though I'm not sure I follow in this case. What do you take issue with?
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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by supriyo-biswas on Saturday June 29, 2024 @04:55AM (#40828823)
The "holding it wrong" part of it.
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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by fennecfoxy on Monday July 01, 2024 @09:37AM (#40845756)
Was that really "name calling"? It's a reference to antennagate and if anything, if you take it within the original context it's really a comment targeting the product Excel, not a person.
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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by jaakl on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:36AM (#40818793)
1M is xlsx file format limitation, and Excel on Mac can work with 1M just fine. But Excel is spreadsheet and not a database, so if you use it for so big datasets (anything over 1000 rows or so) you are very probably just using plain wrong tool.
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