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by bluk 715 days ago
In a different blog:

https://workspace.google.com/blog/sheets/new-innovations-in-...

"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.
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azakai 715 days ago
Yes, that is correct. It began 2x slower than JS, and ended up 2x faster than JS.
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notRobot 715 days ago
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.
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azakai 715 days ago
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).

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azakai 714 days ago
(The post has since been updated to clarify that. Yeah, it was a little confusing before.)
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