Re: org-mode on sloooow computer

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

On Apr 24, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Carsten Dominik writes:
>> 8-10 seconds, that is a lot.
>
> Yes, I agree :( On my desktop, it takes a /trivial/ amount of time,
> definitely under a second.  But the Asus is much much slower,
> especially as most of the system resides on an SD memory card which is
> not particularly fast.  I should say that the .org files searched by
> the agenda take up about 0.5 MB.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Which part can you not reproduce?


When I have the agenda on an arbitrary date, pressing "j" does *not*  
first switch the agenda to today.

> Even on my fast desktop, if I'm
> viewing the daily agenda for May 10th (say), when I hit 'j', I get the
> calendar window displayed, the agenda window updates to show the
> current date's agenda items and I can then type in a new date in the
> mini-buffer.  This happens quite quickly but it *does* happen.
>
> On the Asus, it all happens much much more slowly.  Removing what
> seems to me to be a redundant agenda view update would speed things up
> tremendously.  It's not unbearable because the benefits of using
> org-mode are well worth it but it does mean that I use org-mode more
> cautiously on the Asus than I would otherwise.
>
> I will delve into the org-agenda code!
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
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