Re: [O] working with tables can be quite painful...

[Michael Welle]

Hello,

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:

> On Monday, 19 Sep 2016 at 12:58, Michael Welle wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> the output of your profiler run doesn't ring a bell, but a few years ago
>> I had the problem that after some uptime (my Emacs uptime is typical
>> several days, up to a few weeks) Org operations like building the agenda
>> became sloooow. Restarting Emacs fixed that, until the problem occurred
>> again after some time.
>
> Interesting.  The performance I was referring to last week was indeed in
> an emacs that had been running for quite some time.  I did close down
> that emacs instance on Friday for unrelated reasons and the instance
> this morning had only been running for minutes.  Maybe the problem is
> not org alone but relates to emacs as well.
yepp, that's what I thought. Maybe a minor mode or some function that
got evaluated only once in a while. Or something, that depends on the
input data of that something.


>> If I remember correctly I asked the list for advise. But it looked like
>> one of these problems only I have ;). Maybe some other lisp package had 
>> its hands in the game, I don't know. Eventually, after some Emacs, Org
>> and other updates the problem was gone.
>
> Well, maybe it's a problem that others do have!
;)


>> As I said, I don't think, you suffer from the same problem. But you said
>> you don't use the newest software versions, so just in case.
>
> To clarify, when I said I wasn't using the latest version of org, it's
> that I hadn't updated from git in a few weeks but I am using a snapshot
> of emacs tracking the development version (and now I have org up to date).
Hm, my problem was definitely way more in the past. The only performance
related problem I have from time to time is when the vc-mode hooks get
in the way. But that's nothing Org can change. But on the other hand, my
tables are much smaller than yours and contain mostly static data.

Regards
hmw