Hi all
We’ve just put a new release live. We’ve been noticing that the Balance Sheet and P+L screens in our accounting software could take quiiite a while to load if you have a lot of data.
On one hand you could say that it was understandable; for a reasonable size set of data there are tens of thousands of calculations needed to support the drill downs, subtotalling and everything else. In some systems they’d expect you to request a report, wait for it to be generated, even wait until tomorrow for it. But not here. We were determined that we were going to keep the ‘live’ balance sheet and other reports going, and we had to find a way to make it faster.
So, we wrote a set of performance tests and set to work honing the calculation mechanism. Todays release is the culmination of the process; you’ll notice the results immediately, in some cases we have made almost a tenfold improvement in the screen loading. Hope you enjoy it -hope you enjoy having the time to get on with the stuff you really want to be doing.
