Re: working with tables can be quite painful...

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I am working with a table.  It has approximately 130 rows and 20 columns
> so it's not huge but also not small.  Three columns are text but the
> rest are all numbers with some degree of sparsity.  Instrumenting org
> while working on this table, manipulating the entries in just one row, I
> get the following:
>
> | Function                 | calls | elapsed time | average time |
> |--------------------------+-------+--------------+--------------|
> | org-cycle                |    20 | 41.550963140 | 2.0775481570 |
> | org-table-next-field     |    20 | 41.544266727 | 2.0772133363 |
> | org-table-align          |     5 | 41.470595702 | 8.2941191404 |
> | org-mode-flyspell-verify |    52 | 1.0647362189 | 0.0204756965 |
> | org-do-latex-and-related |    21 | 0.6656267140 | 0.0316965101 |
> | org-element-at-point     |   125 | 0.6356939890 | 0.0050855519 |
> | org-element--parse-to    |   125 | 0.6086256940 | 0.0048690055 |
> | org-element--cache-put   |  1399 | 0.4963533770 | 0.0003547915 |
>
> From this, it would seem that the table align function is killing the
> performance.  8 seconds per call?  On an 8 core Intel(R) Core(TM)
> i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz... so not my wee Pandora where I expect
> slowness!
>
> This is with a not quite up to date org.  I'm avoiding upgrading as I am
> preparing material for teaching which starts soon and I don't want to
> run into issues due to changes in org... so I apologise if things have
> changed recently. This performance issue has existed for quite some time
> now, however.
>
> Any suggestions on speeding things up?

Could you send a profiler report so that I can get a better glimpse on
what part of `org-table-align' is lagging?

An ECM would help too.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou