Size of new document

[jamo]

When I create a new empty(!) iCash document, the size is about 19.6 MB. I use version 3.4. The current document I use (with 4000+ transactions) is round 3.5 MB in size.

What is the reason for this difference?

Is this the explanation for the bad performance with my current document (very slow)?

[stanbusk]

Try to compress the two documents. You will get similar sizes. All comes from indexes and allocation size. If your old document is slow try to rebuild that index.