The attached patch speeds up tags matching ( 50s --> 5s for my most common search ), by turning on org-trust-scanner-tags within the matcher. (When it's off, getting a non-inherited property's value causes a call to org-entry-properties to fetch all properties into a cache, including ALLTAGS; fetching ALLTAGS involves calling (org-get-tags-at), which is slow when org-trust-scanner-tags is off.) Can this cause problems / was this off for a reason? thanks, ilya