Finance::Quote Load Times

[Jed Diem]

On 10/24/15 1:34 PM, Erik Colson wrote:
> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Well, Jed, you’re confirming my own recent experience with GnuCash
>> under OS X. My load times when I first reported troubles were on order
>> of 20 seconds, but have now doubled to about 45 seconds.
>>
>> Unfortunately, no one has been able to offer an explanation as to what
>> is causing the slowdown. I am hoping your additional input will move
>> the dialog along.
> Hi,
>
> It's pretty obvious we cannot find the problem since this happens on
> _your_ system. Now it seems upgrading XCode can provoke the problem.
>
> Can you both post the returning of these commands:
>
>> which perl
>> printenv|grep -i perl
> This might help us understand the problem..
>
> best


Please see the attached file.

I'll not start learning about profiling as per John Ralls

--jed
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OUTPUT OF "which perl"

/usr/bin/perl
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"printenv | grep -i perl"  has empty output;  below is the output of "printenv"

 
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
TMPDIR=/var/folders/bt/q6x7b2v10pv_d5l7x28rlm7w0000gn/T/
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.35bAyBhsMh/Render
WINDOWID=10485773
XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash
USER=jed
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.5gUjufD6za/Listeners
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0x0:0x0
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/opt/X11/bin
PWD=/Applications
XPC_FLAGS=0x0
XTERM_LOCALE=C
XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(314)
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0
HOME=/Users/jed
SHLVL=2
LOGNAME=jed
DISPLAY=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.3tqMbIuqdd/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
X11_PREFS_DOMAIN=org.macosforge.xquartz.X11
_=/usr/bin/printenv
OLDPWD=/
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OUTPUT of "perl -v"

This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2013, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

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As an aside, this computer is fairly clean.  The only apps I've installed are

gnucash with Finance::Quote 
Firefox
Thunderbird
Adobe Creative Cloud
   Photoshop CC (2015)
   Lightroom CC (2015)
Xcode 7.1 with Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) for Xcode 7.1
Security Update 2015-004


--jed diem (jed at tulane.edu)