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[Xavier Lagraula]

OK, so they are actually slower on v2.6, but not specifically on Windows.
Good to know, because that means that I must be cautious about upgrading to
2.6 on my netbook. Load times might become a nuisance on this old horse.
Thank you for answering.

BR,
  Xavier


2014-07-08 10:47 GMT+02:00 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:

>
> On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Xavier Lagraula <detunizedgravity at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Thanks to your answer I now know why GnuCash 2.6.3 starts more slowly on
> my
> > Core i5 / 4Gio RAM / Win7 desktop than GnuCash 2.4.x on my Celeron / 2Gio
> > RAM / Crushbang Linux netbook. Quite impressive. This is a very low
> > priority question, because it is only asked out of curiosity, but why are
> > those checks so much slower on Windows?
>
> Because Windows uses a different date/time API from Unix and GnuCash
> before 2.6 didn't implement that API correctly, which led to a number of
> bugs. In addition to fixing the bugs going forward we have to inspect the
> data on load in case there are munged dates from the old bugs, and because
> some people use both 2.6 and 2.4 we have to do it every time.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>