html-acct-table patch

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:46:03PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> thanks a lot for working on this! I now gave it a try, and your results are 
> really impressive. The income statement, which currently takes ~45 seconds, 
> which means it is unusable, is now finished in 10 seconds, which is at least 
> somehow usable.

Imagine how happy I am with my main data file taking *forever*
(literally several minutes) to run a basic income statement. Plus
several of my regularly used custom reports are based on
income-statement as well. I can tell you its horrible. Especially
since it pegs my cpu the whole time. awful. 

I know there is more work to be done on this report, but I'm so
pleased with the current improvement, I figure its good to get this
committed and (hopefully) backported. 

Its important to note too that I don't really make use of the other
reports that rely on this code and so although I'm very confidant that
this patch returns the same results as the previous code, I can't
guarantee it. I did run some tests and to my eye it looked
good. Also, I didn't change any of the actual logic for calculating
the results, just replaced repeated account totalling with a one-time
pass of totalling needed accounts and cacheing that data for later
use, hence my confidence that the output is the same.

> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488001
> 
> I'd like to apply that patch, however:
> 
> Do you check "svn diff" often?

not really. :) I do it all at once at the end...

> In principle your patch is fine; however, I'd 
> like to ask to clean up the comments a bit [...] Is this possible? 

absolutely. I expected as much and that's why I asked. Probably should
have just done it. 

> Thanks a lot.

happy to help :)

I'll send a revised patch soon.

A
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