From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: Largest org file you have + performance Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 00:42:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87396nu9t3.fsf@altern.org> References: <878vr99bic.fsf@blackbird.nest.zamazal.org> <87wrerkh8a.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87aabc7x95.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47139) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY3nk-0000Bi-KP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 19:20:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY3ni-00014h-5t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 19:20:08 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:64712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY3nh-0000oT-TQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 19:20:06 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id ds1so1046054wgb.30 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 16:20:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (SW's message of "Thu, 24 May 2012 12:29:52 +0000 (UTC)") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: SW Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, SW writes: > Is this performance overhead just a result of poorly-scalable overlays, rather > than an inherent shortcoming of Emacs and/or org-mode? I would say this is a combination of the implementation overlays and the use of overlays in outline.el. Perhaps we should dive into outline.el and see how we can improve things from there. (We tend to forget that Org is just a derived mode from outline.el!) -- Bastien