[Orgmode] Re: Having (too) many files in org-agenda-files

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Nick,

Nick Dokos wrote:
> Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Also, you might consider to remove (org-agenda-list) from .emacs. I
>>>>> think it is pretty much always a bad idea to put a command like this
>>>>> into your startup. Just make it a habit to call it early after starting
>>>>> Emacs.
>>>>
>>>> Honestly, that would not change that much. Having to wait 92 seconds at
>>>> startup, or a long time just a few minutes later has the same impact for
>>>> me.
>
> Maybe you should try adding  a call to the profiler to your .emacs
> and try to measure e.g. how much the font locking costs. Off the top of
> my head and entirely untested, adding
>
> ,----
> | (require 'elp)
> | (elp-instrument-package "font-lock")
> | 
> | ;; rest of your .emacs
> | 
> | (elp-results)
> `----
>
> might be enough.

Here are the results.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
font-lock-fontify-buffer                                   96          
15.383627999  0.1602461249
font-lock-default-fontify-buffer                           96          
15.378296000  0.1601905833
font-lock-fontify-region                                   96          
15.284044000  0.1592087916
font-lock-default-fontify-region                           96          
15.282674000  0.1591945208
font-lock-fontify-keywords-region                          96          
15.184516     0.1581720416
font-lock-prepend-text-property                            8608        
0.2712220000  3.150...e-05
font-lock-unfontify-region                                 96          
0.0859729999  0.0008955520
font-lock-add-keywords                                     166         
0.0800819999  0.0004824216
font-lock-compile-keywords                                 138         
0.0671930000  0.0004869057
font-lock-default-unfontify-region                         96          
0.0378660000  0.0003944375
font-lock-mode                                             142         
0.0344680000  0.0002427323
font-lock-default-function                                 142         0.028445 
     0.0002003169
font-lock-mode-internal                                    73          
0.0272529999  0.0003733287
font-lock-turn-on-thing-lock                               73          
0.0238939999  0.0003273150
font-lock-compile-keyword                                  5505        
0.0225559999  4.097...e-06
font-lock-set-defaults                                     525         
0.0174539999  3.324...e-05
font-lock-remove-keywords                                  130         
0.0018569999  1.428...e-05
font-lock-change-mode                                      33          
0.0016060000  4.866...e-05
font-lock-eval-keywords                                    81          
0.0012500000  1.543...e-05
font-lock-value-in-major-mode                              187         
0.0003879999  2.074...e-06
font-lock-extend-region-wholelines                         96          0.000309 
     3.21875e-06
font-lock-extend-region-multiline                          96          
0.0002549999  2.656...e-06
font-lock-extend-jit-lock-region-after-change              28          
0.0002529999  9.035...e-06
font-lock-after-fontify-buffer                             96          
0.0002499999  2.604...e-06
font-lock-choose-keywords                                  41          
8.899...e-05  2.170...e-06
font-lock-update-removed-keyword-alist                     36          6.8e-05  
     1.888...e-06
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

with 94 files in my =org-agenda-files=. Yes, 94, not 96?

You can effectively see that =font-lock-*= is taking me 15s during my Emacs
startup.

Though, I don't know what's the next action to be taken from this observation.
Can you guide me?

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban