From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: org-columns slowness with fairly large files (~700 lines) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:55:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87a9sxfai4.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> References: <87sj7rzjm3.fsf@kepler.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39409) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TotGZ-0006vW-IJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:03:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TotGY-00058l-5w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:03:43 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com ([209.85.212.173]:41024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TotGU-00058M-7W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:03:42 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hn17so8585254wib.12 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:03:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87sj7rzjm3.fsf@kepler.lan> (Leonidas Tsampros's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:32:20 +0200") 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Leonidas, Leonidas Tsampros writes: > It seems strange to me that switching to the next value of a cell, a > call to org-columns-compute is needed. As you can see > org-get-property-block is calles 786 times (which is rougly the number of > all-level entries in this particular org file). That's because one of the feature of the column view is to sum the values in each entry and show the sum on the top of the colum; so parsing all the values is needed here for computing the sum. > Is there any way to make things faster? I'm afraid not. At least not with a simple fix. Best, -- Bastien