Embrace, extend, and extinguish?

by T. Colin Dodd

An Antic Disposition: Spreadsheet file format performance

The astute engineer will agree with the above, but will also feel some discomfort at the numbers. There is more here than can be explained simply by the use of translators versus import filters. That choice might explain a 2x difference in performance. A particularly poor implementation might explain a 5x difference. But none of this explains why MS Office is almost 40x slower in processing ODF files. Being that much slower is hard to do accidentally. Other forces must be at play.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish. (Warning, the neutrality of this Wikipedia article has been disputed.)

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2 responses to “Embrace, extend, and extinguish?”

ODF: abbraccia, estendi ed estingui? « Fraph24 Blog says:
May 27th, 2008 at 8:35 am
[…] Vengo a conoscenza, tramite la sezione truth happens del redhat magazine, che Office sarà sì compatibile con ODF, ma li processerà 40 volte più lentamente. (link) […]
Adam says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 am
MS just barely began supporting ODF. Give it time.