Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@Catfish_Man @rentzsch OK, I took a quick sample. Almost all the loading time is spent parsing strings into dates as it creates cells."

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 23 Jan 2013

Opened a 4.5 MB CSV file in Numbers in 58 seconds on rMBP. Do a search, it beachballs for 20 seconds. Excel opens it in 1 second.
rentzsch ‏@rentzsch 23 Jan 2013

@mjtsai the dangers of promoting all data to NSObjects. Mail.app learned the same lesson long ago. C++ has its place.
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David Smith ‏@Catfish_Man 23 Jan 2013 Cupertino, CA

@rentzsch @mjtsai you’re accounting a 60x difference to inlining? I mean, I’ve seen it, but I’d be really hesitant to claim that w/out data.

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@Catfish_Man @rentzsch OK, I took a quick sample. Almost all the loading time is spent parsing strings into dates as it creates cells.

11:50 AM - 23 Jan 2013

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