# Gavin Andresen
# 2013-07-29 00:24:01
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262167.msg2822717#msg2822717

How big is your wallet? @p{par}

getbalance() is O(N) where N is the total number of transactions in the wallet. (actually, it can be even worse than O(N) if you have long chains of unconfirmed transactions in your wallet) @p{par}

"Patches welcome" to fix that, I expected one of the big bitcoind-using services would submit a performance fix patch long ago. @p{par}