From f7ce8bcbb300dc8a42b799323093ac187bd78a0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Ralls <jralls@ceridwen.us>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:31:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Disable creating a date string to maybe use in a PINFO
 message.

Creating a date string occupied nearly all of the time required to
set a date on a transaction, generally to no benefit at all.
---
 libgnucash/engine/Transaction.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libgnucash/engine/Transaction.c b/libgnucash/engine/Transaction.c
index a0b4c158bc..a0c5b45f4d 100644
--- a/libgnucash/engine/Transaction.c
+++ b/libgnucash/engine/Transaction.c
@@ -1933,14 +1933,16 @@ xaccTransSetDateInternal(Transaction *trans, Timespec *dadate, Timespec val)
 {
     xaccTransBeginEdit(trans);
 
-    {
+#if 0 /* gnc_ctime is expensive so change to 1 only if you need to debug setting
+       * dates. */
+   {
         time64 secs = (time64) val.tv_sec;
         gchar *tstr = gnc_ctime (&secs);
         PINFO ("addr=%p set date to %" G_GUINT64_FORMAT ".%09ld %s\n",
                trans, val.tv_sec, val.tv_nsec, tstr ? tstr : "(null)");
         g_free(tstr);
     }
-
+#endif
     *dadate = val;
     qof_instance_set_dirty(QOF_INSTANCE(trans));
     mark_trans(trans);