What's your favorite year end method?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 09:38:02PM -0800, Charles Day wrote:
> 
> If I may inject my 2 cents here, it seems to me that the biggest current
> problem with GnuCash reports is the godawful slowness. If picking one
> language over another would have a significant impact on speed, then I think
> that's valuable to consider. Scheme seems fine enough to me as a language,
> but anything interpreted at run-time is too slow for certain reports in my
> opinion.

Perhaps glade doesn't do this, but there is progress toward JIT 
compilers for Scheme.

Not to mention that the original LISP 1.5 in the 60's compiled directly 
into machine code.

Why does the wheel need to be reinvented every time it turns?

-- hendrik