Re: [O] How to make agenda generation faster

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-10-08, at 09:20, Michael Welle <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Orgers,
>>
>> my agenda takes almost 10 seconds to show up.  Are there any ideas for
>> profiling that?
>>
>> I suspect that archiving a lot of old entries I don't use anymore might
>> help, but is there any way to e.g. display some stats on which
>> file/headline took how much time?
> since no one answered yet, there are some similar threads. IIRC the way
> to go is to use elp for profiling.
>
> 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.

Anyway, thanks for your input (to all people who replied, actually).

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