Re: footnote bug

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: footnote bug
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C7B43C79-E0AC-46FF-A339-BF4BE67FA002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da70903261321w67170dfcseb8f0d0b70e466e1@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Samuel,

caching stuff for the agenda would mean rewriting the agenda code.

Do you have more detailed pointers what operations exactly are slow?
Maybe we can profile and improve these without resorting to cacheing.

- Carsten

On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> The following source produces the following output.
>
> ************* sorting speed
>>> The agenda is wonderful for other stuff, but for me it is
>>> not an editing mode per se.  I have never been able to use
>>> the agenda for full control over the org file, as some
>>> people are able to do.  For me (at least on my computer) it
>>> is slow.
>>
>> What is "slow".  Maybe we can improve things?
>
> You could use cached values for agenda files whose last
> update time is earlier than the last agenda scan.  That
> could lead to significant speedups for people who have
> several agenda files.[fn:15]
>
> [fn:15] It wouldn't help with people who have a single
> agenda file, and it wouldn't help with people who very
> frequently use all of their agenda files.  For those use
> cases, something much more complicated and brittle would
> probably be necessary
>
>
> Output:
>
> You could use cached values for agenda files whose last
> update time is earlier than the last agenda scan.  That
> could lead to significant speedups for people who have
> several agenda files.[1]
> [fn:15] It wouldn't help with people who have a single
> agenda file, and it wouldn't help with people who very
> frequently use all of their agenda files.  For those use
> cases, something much more complicated and brittle would
> probably be necessary
> [1] [fn:15]
>
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