Any tips to improve performance?

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

gnucash takes a long time to load initially or generate reports. I'm 
storing data on a local hard drive and it's a pretty modern computer (4 
GB RAM, dual-core 2 GHz CPU, solid state hard drive). Generating a cash 
flow report, for example, can take more than a minute. This is true both 
under Windows and Linux.

I was hopeful the new SQL backend might improve things, so just upgraded 
to the testing version and saved to MySQL. In fact, everything is slower 
now.

Is this standard for someone with a substantial financial history (going 
back to 2002)? Am I missing something?