Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

[Charles Millar]

Hi Michael

> Michael Brand wrote:
>> Hi Charles
>>
>> First I would like to point out that to my understanding there are now
>> two separate issues in discussion in this thread which are easy to mix
>> up:
>>
>> 1) The same table calculates fast or slow depending on the position
>>     within the same entry, see OP.
> I did not understand; I thought that the speed slowed down as the OP 
progressed from table to table in the file.
>> 2) An entry with nothing but a single table, as you describe it:
> True; I did not bother to mention other files in which I had multiple 
tables, some with references to other tables in the file. At times "M-x 
org-table-iterate-buffer-tables" seemed to take eternity, squared. 
(Imagine a smiley face placed here.)
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Charles Millar 
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I learned that the hard way when I had one table - four columns, three
>>> simple addition formulas with about 1,000 entries. It seemed an 
eternity
>>> before the addition was completed.
>> Only out of curiosity I would like to see the TBLFM. And do you see
>> still the same slowness with 8.3beta?
> It has been quite a while and I suspect that my experience may have 
been with org <8.0. I try to find the older files, give them a run and 
let you know.  I will also give org another shot using multiple tables, 
as spreadsheets, in one file. The worst that can happen is that I will 
have to export the tables.
>
> Charlie