Any tips to improve performance?

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

> gnucash takes a long time to load initially or generate reports. I'm  
> storing data on a local hard drive and it's a pretty modern computer  
> (4 GB RAM, dual-core 2 GHz CPU, solid state hard drive). Generating  
> a cash flow report, for example, can take more than a minute. This  
> is true both under Windows and Linux.
>
> I was hopeful the new SQL backend might improve things, so just  
> upgraded to the testing version and saved to MySQL. In fact,  
> everything is slower now.
>
> Is this standard for someone with a substantial financial history  
> (going back to 2002)? Am I missing something?