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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: patch for more efficiency and "Circle" explained
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-08-29 11:48:01
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On Thursday 29 August 2002 05:27, John Dailey wrote:
> This patch reduces the amount of wasted recalculation done.
> 
> Also, I found the problem behind all the "Error: Circle" being dumped to the 
> output.  Think of a situation where A1 depends on A2.  A1 is being calculated 
> and in the middle, A2->calc() is started.  A2 finishes calculating, and since 
> A1 depends on A2, A1 is calculated.  This 2nd call to A1->calc() gives the 
> circle error, but then when the stack unwinds, the 1st A1->calc() finishes 
> normally so there isn't any real problem except the alarming output to the 
> screen.

Good find ;-)

David, who had wondered a bit if his accounts spreadsheet really had circle dependencies ;-)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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