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Re:Accelerate Excel – 100x faster spreadsheets by trapezoid on Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:17PM (#8115462)
What's this written in?
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Re:Accelerate Excel – 100x faster spreadsheets by vj44 on Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:24PM (#8115529)
One of the founders here - it's written in a combination of C, Python and Numpy. We had to go low-level to make it fast, but it's still portable.
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Re:Accelerate Excel – 100x faster spreadsheets by bhouston on Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:38PM (#8115656)
Doesn't having it in Python mean that its memory requirements are moderately large in comparison to pure C++ code?
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Re:Accelerate Excel – 100x faster spreadsheets by vj44 on Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:42PM (#8115693)
We kept that in mind - the actual core is written in C, Python is used mainly for auxiliary jobs (parsing etc.)
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