Finance::Quote Load Times

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 24, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Jed Diem <jed at tulane.edu> wrote:
> 
> Based on gnucash.trace, I recently started to experience load times of Finance::Quote of 67 or so seconds.  This happens when "Checking Finance::Quote" is displayed on the load screen.
> 
> Timing perl -M"Finance::Quote" results in
> 
> real  0m0.116s
> user 0m0.095s
> sys   0m0.016s
> 
> gnc-fq-check runs real quick.
> 
> This is on a new MacBooK Air running Mac OS X 10.10.5 and Gnucash 2.6.8.   Xcode,  Command Line Tools and Gnucash.app were installed on Oct 8 or 9.  Finance::Quote installed cleanly and all ran well and fast initially.  On Oct 21, I installed two updates:
> 
> Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) for Xcode Version 7.1 and
> Security Update 2015-004 Version 1
> 
> The slow Finance::Quote load times started after the two updates.
> 
> Thoughts, please.
> 

Instruments.

Since you installed Xcode, I suppose that you know about profiling. Instruments, which is part of Xcode, includes a wonderful profiler that doesn’t require special compilation to work. Use it to find out what’s taking so long.

Regards,
John Ralls