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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Switch org-agenda-get-* defuns to operate on date ranges
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To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jonas_H=F6rsch?= <coroa@online.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net>

Hi J=F6rg,

I think it would be feasible to write such a modification.

- Carsten

On 20.5.2013, at 15:36, Jonas H=F6rsch <coroa@online.de> wrote:

> hello everyone,
>=20
> i've just started to use calfw to get a nice calendar-like display of =
my
> agenda. unfortunately i was slighly dismayed at the build-up speed
> easily exceeding a few seconds on my not so packed schedule. profiling
> into the code i found that the problem mainly is:
>=20
> there exists only the possibility to retrieve agenda data for one day
> day, org-agenda.el's org-agenda-get-day-entries, rather than for a =
range
> of days. this makes it necessary to loop over --get-day-entries to =
collect
> all entries to show in the monthly calendar.
>=20
> --get-day-entries for its part has to parse (basically regex-search
> through) the respective org agenda file completely on each invocation;
> effectively done by org-agenda-get-{todos,blocks,sexps,...}.
>=20
> i imagine it is quite feasible to implement
> (defun org-agenda-get-entries (file beg end &rest args) ...)
> to sift through FILE but once and return an alist like
> ((date . (entry1 entry2 ..)) ..)
> containing all entries between dates BEG and END, inclusive.
>=20
> neglecting the extra overhead for sorting entries into the alist, this
> promises to speed up typical weekly agenda collection by a factor of 7
> and calfw even by a factor of approx. 30, shouldn't it?
>=20
> before i start a local branch to try myself on this refactoring work,
> i'd welcome a few comments, why i should be likely to fail or succeed!
>=20
> cheers,
> jonas
>=20
>=20