How does it make spreadsheets run so much faster?
URS Translator™ for Excel takes advantage of the simple fact of life that programming code runs faster than spreadsheet code. The powerful, flexible and feature-rich modeling environment of Excel comes at a price, as far as the speed of recalculating models is concerned. A lot of CPU cycles are used up by Excel’s environment, which is the overhead from the standpoint of the model’s end user. In contrast, URS Translator’s for Excel patented technology actually converts the Excel spreadsheets, with all their logic, formulas, and associated program modules, into C++ programming code, and then compiles and links all of these inputs into binary, machine-executable code. An executable file produced in this way incurs no overhead, runs very fast, and may be utilized in other models as one of their many building blocks. This makes up for concise and elegant modeling! Excel is really a trade-off between speed and flexibility, the latter being paramount for model developers, the former important
