Performance issue with "new ReportDocument()"

Question

I have a C# application where I create a Crystal Reports ReportDocument, with the line

CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument document = new CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument();

This line takes 3-4 seconds to execute. This seems very slow, especially since the

document.Load(file)

line following it (which actually does the major part of the work of reading in a report file and creating the report's object model) executes extremely quickly.

What are things I should keep in mind that might improve performance here?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, according to https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/message?messageID=5898122 3-4 seconds fór this constructor call is "quite normal".