Re: How to make agenda generation faster

[Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>]

Hello,

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> On 2018-10-08, at 09:20, Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> wrote:
[...]
>> Well, on my laptop the initial agenda run takes about 7s or so (150
>> agenda files) using the current day/week agenda ("a"). All subsequent
>> (after loading the files) agenda runs are fast (split second I would
>> say). I had some performance issues in the past caused by SCM. Emacs
>> tried to check if every file is checked out in the latest version. That
>> slowed down the process a lot (starting 150 mercurial processes in
>> sequential order, checking results, etc.). The initial run doesn't
>> bother me much. I bound the initial agenda run to an idle timer at Emacs
>> start. 
>
> Interesting.  I did not notice such differences between the first and
> subsequent runs.
I thought that behaviour is natural, scanning dirs for files and opening
them is a costly operation. But a week ago I changed from rotating rust
to solid state disks and that behaviour did not change much. I expected
a speed up, but mee. 

Regards
hmw