Re: org-mode on sloooow computer

[Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>]

Carsten Dominik writes:
> On Apr 24, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
> 
> > Hi Carsten,
> >
> > strange enough the latest git version does not improve time for my  
> > agenda at all.
> > It still is as slow or fast - however you see it.
> 
> I think you have tag inheritance turned off, or you have everything in  
> top-level entries.
> 
>  From todays adjustments, the people who will benefit the most are  
> those who have a very large number of siblings on arbitrary levels,  
> and who, at the same time, use tag inheritance.

Carsten,

I definitely fall into the tag inheritance with large number of
siblings on arbitrary levels category!  FYI, here is another data
point for analysis.  I've downloaded the latest git version:

  commit 4b6f0cf77b941bdaf7d784215d1977f7ea58f550
  Author: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
  Date:   Fri Apr 24 16:45:01 2009 +0200

    Optimization: Make org-end-of-subtree much faster

and these are the first few lines of the profiling information (I can
send all output if you wish) which show another further significant
improvement!  This is fantastic.

org-agenda                             1           1.354913      1.354913
org-agenda-list                        1           1.082066      1.082066
org-dblock-write:clocktable            7           0.541785      0.0773978571
org-agenda-get-day-entries             6           0.430589      0.0717648333
org-get-clocktable                     1           0.384531      0.384531
org-update-dblock                      1           0.349331      0.349331
org-prepare-agenda-buffers             2           0.340886      0.170443
org-agenda-get-scheduled               6           0.289391      0.0482318333
org-agenda-get-restriction-and-command 1           0.272534      0.272534
org-get-tags-at                        8           0.2238899999  0.0279862499
org-up-heading-all                     21          0.2201879999  0.0104851428
...

Thanks again,
eric