It’s perhaps telling that they had an initial prototype which was 2x slower, then talk about specific optimization strategies but never share the updated overall speed comparison.
"Building on improvements like smooth scrolling and expanded cell limits in Sheets, today we’re announcing that we’ve doubled the speed of calculation in Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers,"...
I assume this is 2x the speed of their current JavaScript code.
I'm sorry I'm bad with translating numbers. This means originally the new version ran at half the speed of the JS version, but ended up running at double the speed? Pretty cool.
Yeah, exactly. The initial prototype turned out to be quite slow - a lot of optimizations are needed to be fast. The version as of now is 4x faster than that initial prototype, and 2x faster than the JS version. And we are working to make it even faster.
The good news is that most of those optimizations weren't specific to Java, like work in V8 (that helps any Chromium-based-browser running WasmGC) and work in Binaryen (that helps any Binaryen-using toolchain, like Kotlin and Dart).
The issue is that the biggest evangelists and the CEO's and CFO's and CTO's with paid google accounts (which at that level you want so you can have some confidence in service) can't get their calendars on their home devices. So it's not an issue of multiple accounts, but paid accounts not working.
How in the world is this so hard? I look forward to checking out the link, it needs to be more than multiple accounts, it needs to support PAID workspaces accounts.
I've just been around this again though with google family accounts, I couldn't accept the invite. And it hits you everywhere.
She makes delicious Cake and has a secret you won't find because it uses http that their grandson set up 5 years ago.
Or how about the single mom of 5 trying to sell dresses, guess we should put an expensive big corporation on the front page instead of the local seamstress.
Coincidentally I just finished State of Fear last night, a Crichton novel about Eco terrorism. To be honest parts of it made me uncomfortable but with an open mind it can be a very interesting read. His idea of the PLM complex is a pretty interesting take on our current state of affairs.
I enjoyed the book immensely, but I think its overall tone is destructive of goodwill towards activism in AGW, and it was hugely selective in its use of statistics. Crichton, had he lived, might well have come to regret this book more than others, although I guess he too might have been subject to confirmation bias on things.
Yeah, I feel weird about the book. The devil's advocate stuff about climate science is NOT helpful or intellectually honest...but I find the broader argument about the media living from crises to crises very compelling.
(Also, the actual plot of the book was super annoying haha)
I read this book shortly after its publication...I haven't thought much about it since I read it, but I'm curious how well its aged, given what I remember about the contents. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out what parts made you uncomfortable, though.
