Calc/Performance/misc
Miscellaneous performance optimization opportunities that don't have an own entry under Calc/To-Dos/Performance/... yet.
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In-sheet objects
With a relatively modest number of in-sheet objects (which are favorite tools of complex spreadsheet creators) things become horribly slow: 30secs to load a small file with ~no data / macros & only 240 list boxes sample document.
The sheet objects need idly creating in the svx layer; also there is a floating patch to improve VCL's control management performance - wherein some of the problems lie.
Large / complex pivot sheets
The existing Data Pilot implementation doesn't have a shared normalized form of the data. (ie. with each field reduced to an ordinal, for O(1) lookup). We should implement just such a Data Pilot cache using a representation compatible with the PivotTable cache, and populatable from that on import.
threaded calculation
Ideally to scale to hyper-threaded machines we need to crunch a workbook's dependency graph & then thread the calcuation.
Similarly the process of constructing a Data Pilot cache, and (subsequently) collating that data is one that is susceptible to threading.
Chart Optimization
The existing chart component performs extremely poorly. However - it's likely that optimizing chart2 is a better bet. Having said that, there seem to often be a large number of re-calculation / re-renderings of charts on load that are perhaps realated to a calc/chart2 mis-interaction [jody- substantiate?]
In addition the chart likes to do (expensive) label / string size calculation for (potentially) tens of thousands of labels it will never use for scatter plots, multiple times each.