Data Handling

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting linuxforrealpeople <martin-porter at beeb.net>:

>
> I have just imported some 13 years worth of personal data from Quicken into
> GnuCash. I notice that when opening the app it seems to read in the whole
> datafile and I wonder to what extent the opening procedure will degrade as
> the volume of data held increases.

It's pretty linear at this time.  Yeah, the larger your data file,
the poorer the performace.  Future versions will HOPEFULLY help
this, but it'll be a while until that gets done.

> In addition I have downloaded version 2.1.1 from the Ubuntu repository - is
> there a later stable version I should be using.

2.1.1 is an unstable, beta-test version.  There is no newer stable
version.  The current stable version is 2.0.5.

> Many Thanks for reading this.

-derek

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