Any performance loss with radio targets?

Any performance loss with radio targets?

[Matthew Lundin]

Hello everyone,

I very much like the convenience of radio targets but was wondering
whether an inordinate number of radio targets/links can slow down
org-mode as it opens files.

I'd like to use internal links to connect notes with their sources.

For instance:

----

* Auther, Title, Year.
<<<AuthorYear>>>

[...]

* Note

"Here is a quote."
AuthorYear

----

If I plan on having hundreds such links in a file (and perhaps
thousands in all my org files), would there be any performance gained
by using explicit internal links instead of the radio targets? I.e.,

<<AuthorYear>>

[[AuthorYear]]

I'm assuming the difference would be minimal but would like to confirm
this before committing to the first method. Needless to say, it would
be easier to convert the second type of links to the first with
search/replace than the first to the second.

Thanks,

Matt

Re: Any performance loss with radio targets?

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Matt,

Hundreds or thousands of radio links would be disastrous, direct links  
will work fine.

- Carsten

On Dec 10, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I very much like the convenience of radio targets but was wondering
> whether an inordinate number of radio targets/links can slow down
> org-mode as it opens files.
>
> I'd like to use internal links to connect notes with their sources.
>
> For instance:
>
> ----
>
> * Auther, Title, Year.
> <<<AuthorYear>>>
>
> [...]
>
> * Note
>
> "Here is a quote."
> AuthorYear
>
> ----
>
> If I plan on having hundreds such links in a file (and perhaps
> thousands in all my org files), would there be any performance gained
> by using explicit internal links instead of the radio targets? I.e.,
>
> <<AuthorYear>>
>
> [[AuthorYear]]
>
> I'm assuming the difference would be minimal but would like to confirm
> this before committing to the first method. Needless to say, it would
> be easier to convert the second type of links to the first with
> search/replace than the first to the second.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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Re: Any performance loss with radio targets?

[Matthew Lundin]

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> Hi Matt,
>
> Hundreds or thousands of radio links would be disastrous, direct links
> will work fine.
>
> - Carsten
>

That's what I suspected. Thanks so much for confirming it.

- Matt

> On Dec 10, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I very much like the convenience of radio targets but was wondering
>> whether an inordinate number of radio targets/links can slow down
>> org-mode as it opens files.
>>
>> I'd like to use internal links to connect notes with their sources.
>>
>> For instance:
>>
>> ----
>>
>> * Auther, Title, Year.
>> <<<AuthorYear>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> * Note
>>
>> "Here is a quote."
>> AuthorYear
>>
>> ----
>>
>> If I plan on having hundreds such links in a file (and perhaps
>> thousands in all my org files), would there be any performance gained
>> by using explicit internal links instead of the radio targets? I.e.,
>>
>> <<AuthorYear>>
>>
>> [[AuthorYear]]
>>
>> I'm assuming the difference would be minimal but would like to confirm
>> this before committing to the first method. Needless to say, it would
>> be easier to convert the second type of links to the first with
>> search/replace than the first to the second.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
>> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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