Re: opening a 0.5 MB org file is slow

[Ihor Radchenko]

> I'm afraid I don't know how to profile the opening of a file. Does
> anybody know a function that would do the profiling like
> elp-instrument-function for functions?

There is elp-instrument-package. Also, I did successful profiling with
simple profiler-start/profiler-report before and after opening the file.

In general, time for opening org files depends on many factors [1].
Profiling is the way to go if one wants to find the bottlenecks.


[1] 
https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/ivifjv/a_question_about_orgagenda_performance_and_org/g5rxzf6/

Best,
Ihor



Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Uwe,
>
> Can you test with emacs -Q ?
>
> A 1.6M org file took a little under 7 sec on my computer.
> It probably depends on the number of minor modes are being loaded, font-lock,
> auto-completion, etc. 
>
> I'm afraid I don't know how to profile the opening of a file. Does
> anybody know a function that would do the profiling like
> elp-instrument-function for functions?
>
> -- 
> HTH
> Jeremie Juste
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 29 Sep 2020 at 21:11, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Hi 
>>
>> maybe I am just to impatient but on my 8 GB Thinkpad X1 (4gen) to open a
>> 0.5MB org file takes around 15 sec.
>>
>> Any change to speed this up?
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>>
>> Uwe Brauer 
>>