Multi-Processor Capability

[Bofus]

When will Excel use multi-processors? I see that one of my processors are pegged but the other is doing almost nothing.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

When will Excel use multi-processors? I see that one of my processors are
pegged but the other is doing almost nothing.

Please send feedback to Microsoft (via Help/Send Feedback), explaining
how using multi-processors would help your use - e.g., not just "make it
faster", since using multiple processors doesn't necessarily speed
things up if your calculations are sequentially dependent.

Just knowing what type and number of calculations are occuring in your
workbook that is pegging a single processor may be helpful.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

I have doubts that it will ever. Office is a ³mature² product. Usually
mature products don¹t get core refreshes. Both the Mac and Windows versions
of office lack mutli-processor and multi-threading capabilities. The
increased speed of the hardware has offset most users need for increased
speed.

Clearly, the speed of Office applications could be greatly increased if the
applications were re-written with modern code. On the other hand, are your
office applications running too slow for you? If so, then please use Help >
Send Feedback and let Microsoft know you need increased speed (and for which
application and what you are doing that is taking too long).

Unless thousands of folks said that Office is going too slow I wouldn¹t
expect to see a re-write of the entire suite of applications. It¹s rare
these days to see complaints about speed.

-Jim

When will Excel use multi-processors? I see that one of my processors are
pegged but the other is doing almost nothing.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Nick Bell]

Unless thousands of folks said that Office is going too slow I wouldn’t
expect to see a re-write of the entire suite of applications. It’s rare
these days to see complaints about speed.

Well, charting in 2008 is clearly unusable for medium sized datasets -
one wouldn't expect performance to _deteriorate_ with time!

 

[Charles Williams]

Excel 2007 on Windows exploits multiple processors/cores for calculating.
Works quite well for larger workbooks unless you have a strange spreadsheet
with one single calculation chain.

Charles
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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Nick,

Some others have reported this, too. Please use Help > Send Feedback to let
Microsoft know. Making a sample workbook available to them via a link would
probably help, too.

-Jim

Well, charting in 2008 is clearly unusable for medium sized datasets -
one wouldn't expect performance to _deteriorate_ with time!

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
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