Sujet : Re: The problem with not owning the software
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.comp.os.windows-11 comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 30. Dec 2024, 05:52:58
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:08:00 -0500, -hh wrote:
I have a colleague who's done some amazing stuff in Excel using Visual
Basic Script (VBS); the PC I had at the time would fail just trying to
load the files; his beefy machine he had would take literally hours to
crunch through a set. A quick search shows that I still have an older
copy: it takes up 14.34GB on disk. Youch.
How much data was involved, really? I suspect a more sensible app would
deal with the same data much more efficiently and easily.