Setting up gnucash to use postgesql back end - close but no cigar ...

[Wm]

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 15:24:17 
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Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com>

>On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:04 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> Maybe. It would depend upon what's in a book and what operations are done
>> in a session. It would take a lot of work to develop a good set of
>> benchmarks to evaluate that. Since you're the one beating the horse to
>> death, perhaps you can spend some time working on it.
>>
>> I did a quick valgrind(callgrind) to profile gnucash on the "open
>document" operation.
>You can see in the first screenshot  the top "time consuming" functions.
>I also filtered on all xacc functions.
>Even though it may not be easy to see immediately if the "rational
>arithmetic" takes a long time, at first sight, I do not see them coming on
>the top.

My impression is that there is too much variability in people's books 
for the analysis of one person's file to be of general use to all or 
indeed any other.

Further, I'm not convinced gnc should be made to do things it wasn't 
intended for.  I've said my bit about that before.

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Wm...