testing the book zeroing code (maybe for backport?) <<Offline>>

[Derek Atkins]

Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:37:35PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
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> ...
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>> Well, it's possible that GetBalanceAsOfDate goes forward in time
>> instead of backwards in time, which means that the more transactions
>> you have the longer it takes.
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> might be a source of problems in income statement as well as I think
> we use the same code... mine's already getting too slow and the I only
> got the fix in my stable version. sheesh.
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> A
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> ps. doh, I see you already basically said that...

Unfortunately, AFAICT, there's no way to get to the tail of a GList
short of walking it.  Even though it's a doubly-linked list, there's
no "list tail".  The ends are NULL.

So.. We could probably solve this by keeping a tail pointer and
then we could search from the end instead of the front.

-derek

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