From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Girard <nicolas.girard@nerim.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of display properties as a caching mechanism
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:26:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E5605317-3D78-4EBF-A88F-E14D0D1F354E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51b0095d0906240319m3ecfcb23yc5dda4ce6d0a0ee0@mail.gmail.com>
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
> When hacking the org-icons stuff, I came to realize that emacs allows
> to attach any set or property/value to any part of a buffer.
>
> It seems to me like org-mode could perfectly use this as a caching
> mechanism.
> What bout storing time-expensive informations as special properties
> attached to the first '*' of a heading ?
> The price to pay would be to enforce the consistency of this cache --
> as with any cache, after all; as a benefit, this may boost org-mode's
> performances.
> What do you think ?
I have been there, and I am using stuff like that for column view.
However, Org-mode's commitment to plain text makes it possible
that text is being changed behind its back, so most of the
time, complete rescans are appropriate. Keeping a cache consistent
would be a huge problem.
- Carsten
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