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Gnumeric is a large steaming pile of dog poo. Do a sort on a largeish file and it will consume all the known RAM in the universe. Do the same operation in Exc
by anon13839 12y ago
Gnumeric is a large steaming pile of dog poo. Do a sort on a largeish file and it will consume all the known RAM in the universe. Do the same operation in Excel and it barely breaks a sweat.
- krylon 12y agoI once had to open a CSV file with about 2,000 columns. Excel failed me, OpenOffice/LibreOffice failed me, only Gnumeric managed to open the file. I'll admit that I only deal with that many columns on very rare occasions, but it does come in handy sometimes.
- DanBC 12y agoIn theory Excel can open files with 16,384 columns so it's surprising it failed. https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Excel-specifications-and-limits-1672b34d-7043-467e-8e27-269d656771c3 https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Excel-specification...
- krylon 12y agoI might misremember the number of columns (could have been 20,000 - also, it had many rows), or maybe the 16,384 column limit applies to xls(x) files only, not to importing CSV files. I remember at first cursing at Excel, then realizing what a ridiculously large number of columns the file had.
- aw3c2 12y agoProvide a proper test case to the developers and they will likely fix it. I've had extraordinarily nice experiences with bug reports to gnumeric so far.