Loading reports in 10.0 - much slower than 9.0

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From: Bill Carlson (bill_carlson2_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: 25 Feb 2004 17:50:25 -0800

Hello. We're considering upgrading an existing app to use Crystal
10.0, but are running into a particular performance issue. When we
load a report as follows:

ReportDocument RD = new ReportDocument();
RD.Load("SomeFile.rpt");

it takes approximately 6 times as long as in 10.0 as it did in 9.0.
In addition, calling ApplyLogonInfo has also become much slower.
We've tried the following:

 - Updating the report itself to Crystal 10.0
 - Trying a variety of reports (they all perform about the same)
 - Setting the data source in the report to various combinations

The speed seems to be somewhat proportional to the complexity of the
report.

I'm not sure if we're doing anything incorrectly? Has anyone else
experienced this problem? It's a deal-killer for us, as our users
won't wait 60 seconds for a report to load.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions provided!

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