I put a bounty

[Linas Vepstas]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 01:38:55PM -0400, don Paolo Benvenuto was heard to remark:
> I'm using gnucash in a rather complex situation, managing accounts of
> three subjects all together. I have many accounts (900) and many many
> many txns (20,000).
> 
> In that situation, gnucash is running very slow: on my p4 1.8 G 256 M
> ram it takes 5 seconds to open an account register, and the same time to
> save a new txn.
> 
> I could see that these times depend only on the number of accounts, not
> on the number of txns.
> 
> Will we find someone with the ability and the will to resolve this task?

Well, the problem is "almost" resolved. There's code in cvs head that
eliminates the high overhead in all situations but the very first
register open.  This code needs to be tested a bit more, and then
back-ported to gnucash-1.8.  Next, we'd need a new relese, a 1.8.10
and then you'd have to wait for your distro to build a binary package
for 1.8.10 ...  So, although fixed, it could be a long time before 
you see the fix on your computer ... 

--linas

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