Re: How to make agenda generation faster

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

i too visit all files when emacs starts.

are we saying that the speed depends on the number of headlines total
or the number of headlines in a single file among the agenda files?

On 10/11/18, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
> On 2018-10-11, at 08:48, Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Ah, I have /visiting/ all my agenda files (but not generating the agenda
> itself) in my init.el.
>
> That explains a lot.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://mbork.pl
>
>


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