Re: [Orgmode] Any performance loss with radio targets?

[Matthew Lundin]

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> 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
>>
>>
>>
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