On: Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets

[jeffbee]

I tried to load the CSV that I most recently imported into Google Sheets into this hosted Grist and it choked. The behavior of the progress bar implies some kind of super-linear algorithm.

The most important component of "alternative to Google Sheets" is function. "Open core" is an aesthetic matter of little interest to most users.

[heavyset_go → jeffbee]

It's a Node app, so CPU-bound work will run linearly on a single thread unless work was done to break up work into multiple processes or worker threads.

[jeffbee → heavyset_go]

It’s behavior was more suggestive of Zeno's paradox than of single-threadedness.

[paulfitz → jeffbee]

(disclosure: Grist employee) You're exactly right https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/blob/7f1f8fc9e60a2e1... - sorry the import choked!

[troynt → jeffbee]

This was my experience with a well. I was testing with a 36MB dataset and it was choking. The CPU was sitting at 4% usage.