Al 30/01/11 22:51, En/na Matt Lundin ha escrit:
> Pere Quintana Seguí <pquintana@obsebre.es> writes:
> 
>> In my current system, I have about 200 .org files. With this number of
>> files, building the agenda is very slow in my home computer and, also,
>> makes the performance of MobileOrg quite poor.
>>
>> So, I would like to join files, to increase the system's performance.
> 
> FWIW, I've found the opposite to be true. Splitting up larger files and
> reducing the depth of the hierarchy marginally improves agenda
> performance (~ 0.2 seconds acc. to elp). But in my case, I split 10
> files into 40, so I have no idea what 200 files would do. Perhaps
> there's a sweet spot somewhere? I also haven't used mobile org.

So, maybe my initial assumption is wrong.

Has anybody run some experiments to check if it is better to have a
small number of big files or many small files?


> In my experience, archiving old items and reducing the number of active
> todos is the best way to keep the agenda snappy.
> 
>> Is there any script to cleanly join files, by transforming the title of
>> the file in a first level heading (*) and adding an star to all other
>> headings of the file?
> 
> Perl is always handy for this type of thing:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> 
> my $mergefile = "/tmp/merged.org";
> 
> open NEWFILE, ">", $mergefile 
>   or die "Can't open $mergefile: $!";
> 
> while (<>) {
>   s/^(\*+)/*$1/;
>   s/^#\+TITLE:\s+(.*)$/* $1/;
>   s/^(#\+\w+:.*)$/: $1/;
>   print NEWFILE "$_";
> }
> 
> close NEWFILE;
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Note: This is a quick proof of concept. Use at your own risk. ;)

Great, thank you!

Pere


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