Re: notifications for todo items

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25 2012, Nick Dokos wrote:
> 
> > A quick first impression: orgntf-process seems expensive. It seems
> > to take 100% of one core (I've got a quad-core processor) for three or
> > four seconds every fifty seconds. Unfortunately, the core is the same one
> > that's running emacs, so emacs stops responding for those three or four
> > seconds. I have disabled org-notify for now.
> 
> How many lines do you have in your org-files?
> (I've about 200 and execution time is about 100ms.)
> 

Roughly 7000 - I just added a task to clean things up, so it's now 7002 :-)

> I call now "(org-element-parse-buffer 'heading)", I hope it's faster for
> you. Is it faster, when the file is byte-compiled?
> 
> Other ideas:
> - I could divide orgntf-process into several tasks, so that things run
>   more smoothly.
> - You could call (org-notify-start -60), so the process will be called,
>   when idle for one minute.
> 

This sounds promising - I'll try this out in the next iteration.

> The file has a new home: https://github.com/p-m/org-notify
> There is now `orgntf-verbose' to see execution time of
> `orgntf-todo-list'.
> 

OK - I'll try it out when I get a chance.

Thanks,
Nick