Org-refile is quite slow

Org-refile is quite slow

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hello,

As said, I find the refiling quite slow -- am I the only one?

When refiling, I see "Getting targets..." for some seconds. And I could get
those profiling results:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
org-refile                    1           9.484         9.484
org-refile-get-location       1           9.313         9.313
org-refile-get-targets        1           7.015         7.015
org-let                       2           5.624         2.812
org-search-view               2           5.624         2.812
org-sparse-tree               1           4.469         4.469
org-occur                     1           4.297         4.297
org-agenda-redo               1           4.031         4.031
org-agenda-to-appt            2           3.0           1.5
org-agenda-get-day-entries    90          2.3900000000  0.0265555555
org-agenda                    1           2.344         2.344
org-olpath-completing-read    1           2.047         2.047
org-icompleting-read          1           2.047         2.047
org-agenda-prepare            2           1.812         0.906
org-agenda-get-scheduled      90          1.6300000000  0.0181111111
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Any idea where to look at first, in which direction (if I'm quite alone
experiencing such long wait times)?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban

Re: Org-refile is quite slow

[Bastien]

Hi Sébastien,

"Sebastien Vauban"
<wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> writes:

> As said, I find the refiling quite slow -- am I the only one?

Depending on `org-refile-targets' yes, it can be slow.
`org-refile-use-cache' can help here, but still, you may
have to refresh the cache from time to time, and it is
annoying.

Any idea on how to improve this is welcome.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Org-refile is quite slow

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Bastien,

Bastien wrote:
> "Sebastien Vauban" writes:
>
>> As said, I find the refiling quite slow -- am I the only one?
>
> Depending on `org-refile-targets' yes, it can be slow.
> `org-refile-use-cache' can help here

Didn't know about that. Thanks for the tip.

The effect is day and night. It's really much, much quicker now.

> but still, you may have to refresh the cache from time to time, and it is
> annoying.

IIUC, the cache is "in memory", not "in file" (like the clock history, or
Gnus' registry).

> Any idea on how to improve this is welcome.

If this is the case (cache destroyed at every Emacs shutdown), I find this a
perfect solution already...

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban