I'm slowly gearing up to use GnuCash on live data, and am attempting
to start parallel operation with Quicken before cutting over comletely.
As a result I am continuing to find problems, some of which are relatively
easy to fix.
But some, I suspect are not.
Is there a speed problem, or am I doing something wrong.?
I just imported *all* my Quicken accounts, and then started tracking
down duplicated entries.
Once I find one, it takes 45 seconds to delete it, starting from the
moment I confirm the deletion to the moment the register has its
new contents. This is the performance I expect from Java.
I also notice that scrolling is quite slow.
Also, if I happen to move the delete-confirmation window by grabbing it
by its title bar, the window leaves a trail of ghosts, which slowly disappear
at the rate of about one per second.
The account I am editing has something like 7000 or so transactions.
Could this be relevant?
My guesses (using psychic debugging, without reference to source code)
is:
(a)
- because gtk+ imposes a scrolling area limit af 32K pixels,
you have too handle scrollong at a higher level in the protocol.
- the higher layer is written in guile, which is interpreted (like Java)
- so scrolling slows down quite a bit.
(b)
- deleteing a transaction involves recalculating sizes for the entire
scroling area, and this also is done in guile, is interpreted, and
so each deletion might end up taking the same order of magnitude
of time as some of the analysis activities during importing.
(c)
- Events are queued, and not subsumed. So if you press the up cursor
three times in a row, you end up displaying the register in three
separate positions, instead of counting up-cursor presses and moving
the register three lines all at once.
I don't know if these analyses are correct, or whether the problems are
in gnome/gtk+ or in the guile code for gnucash. In any case, this is
probably not something to try and fix before the 1.4 code freeze.
And perhaps the proper fix would be in gnome, not gnucash.
Any comments?
-- hendrik.
P.S. For what it's worth, my processor is a Pentium running at 39.73 BogoMIPS;
48 meg of RAM. I'm running SuSE Linux 6.3.
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