[GNC] Why I create a new datafile each year for GnuCash

[Adrien Monteleone]

Will do. Also of note, I normally use the sqlite backend so not sure if that has an impact. I’ll try it also with XML since the script only works on that anyway. I might not get done with testing till tomorrow though.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Oct 21, 2019 w43d294, at 5:03 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Actually, try the trial balance again in a recent maint. A major speedup was merged in last month: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/0ec82872b -- I think you'll find it's now much faster. Come back with benchmarks :) and confirmation amounts are still correct.
> Otherwise bugzilla is perfect (component Reports).
> 
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 22:00, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Where should I post it? A bug report?
> 
> > On Oct 21, 2019 w43d294, at 4:48 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:12, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > The Trial Balance took 21 seconds. (I didn’t use a stop watch, I just watched my desktop clock tick by, so not very scientific, but enough of a spread to be an issue)
> > 
> > Both tally everything from all transactions and then present various aggregate organizations.
> > 
> > Why is one so quick and the other 21+ times slower?
> > 
> > 
> > Chris wants to see that datafile :)
> > (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/ObfuscateScript is fine)