Hi Piter,

First guess: functionality outside org-mode is slowing things down.
First candidate: line numbers turned on?  If yes, try disabling.

Then there were discussions about speed here before, e.g.
http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg27951.html
Maybe you find sth there.

HTH,
Andreas

Am 17.02.2011 13:29, schrieb Piter_:
> Hi all.
> I use org-mode to organize and process my experimental data. By now my
> org file has 5000 lines with a lot of python and matlab code. I
> started to fill that org-mode becomes slower. I have to wait for
> characters to appear while typing and so on.  Can anybody reccomend a
> way to speed it up?
> Thanks.
> Petro
> P.S. I have installed the org mode from GIT: "make && make doc && make install"
> I guess it is bytecompiled already.
>
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