Re: org-mode on sloooow computer

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

8-10 seconds, that is a lot.

On Apr 23, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using org-mode more and more and, unsurprisingly, it gets
> slower and slower due to the increasing amount of data org-mode has to
> parse and evaluate.  On my desktop systems (and on my full-featured
> laptop), this is not yet a problem [1].  On my little netbook (the
> original eee pc from Asus which is used primarily for org-mode!),  
> there
> are some annoyances due to the much slower cpu.  I'd like to mention  
> one
> that I believe should be easy to fix (for those with much more elisp
> expertise than my own...):
>
> When in agenda view, when org-agenda-goto-date is invoked (typically
> with 'j'), the agenda view is regenerated for today's date  
> regardless of
> which date I am currently viewing, before allowing me to input a date.

I don't think I can reproduce this.

> This seems an unnecessary step and I wonder whether it would be easy  
> to
> change?  On my Asus, regenerating the view for my current date (with
> todos, scheduled items, etc) takes at least 8 seconds!  When I'm
> checking out various dates in the future for possible meetings or
> whatever, having to wait up to 10 seconds each time I look at a
> different date gets a little frustrating.
>
> I've had a look at org-agenda-goto-date and org-read-date but it's not
> immediately apparent to me why the current date's view has to be
> generated.

- Carsten