gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

[Dave Peticolas]

On 06 Jun 2001 15:45:15 -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:06:05PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > I don't know about guile-1.4, but on my guile-1.3.4 system,
> > it takes almost 3 seconds to load src/scm/report-list.scm.
> > That is over half the time I wait before the splash screen
> > comes up! So I think you are wrong here.
> 
> report-list.scm doesn't create any report objects.  It just defines
> the different types of reports.  I was talking about the loading of
> the code in ~/.gnucash/books/foo.scm that actually causes the reports
> to be created.
> 
> If you were talking about trying to avoid loading the code that
> defines what reports are, I misunderstood you.  That would be a fairly

That is what I was talking about.


> major departure from our approach now, which is to load all the
> data-independent Guile code needed by Gnucash at startup time.  We
> would have to rewrite all the reports to somehow define them (so that
> they appeared in the report menu) without actually evaluating the
> (define) forms inside the report Scheme files.  Pretty tricky.

Not too tricky, I think. We already have infrastructure to load
files on demand only once so I don't think it would be too hard.
If we encapsulate it inside the report object, I think it wouldn't
be too hard.


> I'm very surprised that the loading is so slow with 1.3.4.  Gnucash
> doesn't take nearly that long to load for me; and if the splash screen
> doesn't come up while stuff like that is loading, what good is it?
> Maybe we should shuffle things around to display the splash screen
> sooner.  That won't make things load faster, but eye candy helps pass
> the time.  Maybe a progress bar for startup?

I'd be a bit paranoid about changing the order now -- maybe 1.6.1 or so?

dave