Multithreaded recalculation in Excel

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by wslh • 13 years ago

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CamperBob26• 13 years ago

How about letting me open more than one document window, then implementing bikeshed performance improvements that perhaps one in a thousand users will ever notice?

MekaiGS• 13 years ago

You can open multiple Excel instances since at least Excel 2003 but Excel would not go out of its way to open files in a new instance if you just double click on the file.

CamperBob26• 13 years ago

Right, which is how no other Windows application in the 69,105 known planes of existence works. :(

jacques_chester2• 13 years ago

Excel is, for good or ill, one of the engines which settles the dispositions of multi-billion dollar calculations of dollars every day. For certain high-value, high-influence clients this is a feature worth having.

jacques_chester2• 13 years ago

In case you're wondering: yes. I wrote and partly rewrote the above sentences while distracted.

dmcg• 13 years ago

Interesting - PHONETIC not thread safe. There must be a story behind that, as its not obviously a contended resource. http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/excel-help/phonetic-functi...

Multithreaded recalculation in Excel

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