Memory use (was Re: COUPNCD COUPPCD)

[Nick Lamb <njl98r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:26:11PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> I believe you already got them. THey are a bunch of files in the 300KB 
> range called coupdays.gnumeric, couppcd.gnumeric, etc at 
> http://www.cs.hut.fi/~jiivonen/testfiles.

Well, they may be 300Kb as BZIP2 block compressed text, but they're more
like 150+ Mb in my copy of Gnumeric. This is not good w/ 128Mb of RAM

Gnumeric is chewing up ~1Kb per cell for these sheets, Jody can you tell
us what this is spent on? I'd expect more like 20 to 100 bytes.

> If you adjust those files, perhaps you could record in them that the 
> numbers come from Excel 2000 on MS Wiundows x.xx.xx

I think I'm partly missing the point here (or maybe not). If these files
test XL compatibility, why aren't they .XLS files? Is that what you want
me to do? I figured we were talking about ~100 line test sheets like
those for the rest of XL functions, but this is... hard core.

If I can't export the sheets to XL 95 then I'm certainly not about to
type them all in. Maybe Gnumeric can export them as CSV ? I'll try to
tomorrow and report to the list at ~ 1700 UTC.

Nick.