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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: "jiangzuoyan@gmail.com" <jiangzuoyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Largest org file you have + performance
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:31:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrerkh8a.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAmZbPMFMQTvxkbTTzQYQxpEivVH3QBKnQvBOBtwvLV=U9u=kA@mail.gmail.com> (jiangzuoyan@gmail.com's message of "Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:20:16 +0800")

"jiangzuoyan@gmail.com" <jiangzuoyan@gmail.com> writes:

> My largest org file is QuanSongCi.org, contains ci poetry of Song
> dynasty, about 6MB size.
>
> Editing in emacs is very slow, save needs to wait about
> minutes. convert to html needs to wait about minutes, too. So,
> sometimes, sed like tools is preferred to do editing and converting.

Thanks for these details. I can report similar experiences with large files.

As far as I understand, large org-mode buffers are slow because there
are many overlays, which (unlike text properties), don't scale well:

(info "(elisp) Overlays")

This is right now an inescapable limitation of org-mode, since
outline-mode relies on overlays.

There was brief talk on emacs-dev of rewriting text-properties so that
outline-mode could use them instead of overlays, but I do not believe
the proposal was pursued further:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/131304

Best,
Matt

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-01 16:35 Largest org file you have + performance Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-08-01 16:54 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-01 17:06   ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-08-01 20:27     ` suvayu ali
     [not found]       ` <CACHMzOFtszuW9SW8XLbr5ZV3VDQsYSdvn6Qfqt+bFHW6u_qbtQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-01 20:33         ` Fwd: " Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-08-01 18:13 ` Florian Beck
2011-08-02  7:14   ` Performance of org-mode with BIDI (was: Largest org file you have + performance) Reiner Steib
2011-08-03 16:36     ` Performance of org-mode with BIDI Florian Beck
2011-08-01 18:17 ` Largest org file you have + performance Eric Abrahamsen
2011-08-02  0:56 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-08-04 20:18 ` Milan Zamazal
2011-08-05  2:20   ` jiangzuoyan
2011-08-05 15:31     ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2011-08-14 16:50       ` Bastien
2012-05-24 12:29         ` SW
2012-05-25 22:42           ` Bastien

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