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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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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