On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 2018-02-10 10:37, Stan Brown wrote: > > I can't see any reason why uninstalling and reinstalling the program > would have fixed the problem with crashing on report production (or very > slow performance). And it seems weird that both versions, 2.6.18 as well > as 2.6.19, would take two minutes to produce their first report but then > produce all later reports very quickly. It's not Windows updates; none > were done between the two times I tried GnuCash. > > The only difference I can see there is that the first report was against > a file created with just the Common Accounts from the wizard, and no > transactions, whereas the later reports were all created from my real > file, with my account structure, opening balances (via transaction, not > on the New Account dialog), and transactions for the first 3½ weeks of > January. > I know very little about the Windows version of GnuCash (I have only ever used the linux versions). That said, I wonder if this has to do with Guile or Scheme precompiling and/or caching the report code. I know there has been some discussion on this list saying that when you EDIT the scheme code on your own Windows system, you may have to go through a separate process to get Windows to recognize your changed code, because GnuCash sometimes continues to run the original code. I know on linux the precompiling must be extremely fast, or maybe it isn't triggered in the same way as in Windows. Since recent versions of the Scheme code or the Scheme interpreter in Windows cause a longer delay than before, maybe now the interpreter proactively precompiles everything in Windows, while in linux maybe Guile only compiles each file as it's first called. (This is just speculation.) If this a reasonable explanation, I wonder if it's possible to detect the precompiling when it occurs in Windows and pop up a message on the screen while it happens. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
