Finance::Quote Load Times

[Erik Colson]

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Erik,
>
> The first time I run this initial command, the real time is .200s
> (user comes in with .043s, and sys is .021s). A second try yields
> .05s, .041s & .007s. I do not know the significance of the three
> numbers, nor do I know why the first iteration is four times slower.
>
> The second command yields: /Library/Perl/5.18/Finance/Quote.pm
>
> I hope that is useful.

Hi David,

The first time always takes longer due to loading file from
disk. Afterwards the file gets into OS cache which reduces load time.

Albeit, the loading time looks pretty fast. So, I guess the waiting time
is spent somewhere in gnucash searching for perl or F::Q ...

best
-- 
erik colson