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Re: [O] Fwd: slow capture templates


From: Nick Dokos
Subject: Re: [O] Fwd: slow capture templates
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 18:34:24 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

jamil egdemir <address@hidden> writes:

> Using M-x org-version RET I get:
> Org-mode version 8.2.6 (release_8.2.6-1 @
> /home/jegdemir/share/emacs/24.4.50/lisp/org/)
>

...and which OS and which X are you using?

> In an attempt to follow you suggestion,  I fired up a few calls to
> x-get-selection in my *scratch* but didn't find anything exciting:
> ...
>
> I was hoping this would expose something since the two function calls
> in org-eventually boil down to x-get-selection (I think) but no dice.
> I also tried 'STRING and 'TEXT as arguments in the x-get-selection...
> results were the same and execution time was snappy.

So calling it by hand is fast, but calling it through org-capture is
extremely slow. Can you run an instrumented x-get-selection by hand and
see *how* fast the fast case is? On my system, I get 2.8ms per call, so
the ratio between that and your slow x-get-selection (admittedly a
meaningless number but that's why I wanted your fast value) is 150 or
so. I tried to come up with a theory here, but I must admit I'm baffled.

> ...
> x-get-selection                                               24
>    115.30194600  4.8042477502
> x-get-selection-internal                                      24
>    115.30104917  4.8042103823
> ...
> Looking at the definitions of the capture templates I'm using I'm not
> sure if I understand why the call is being made in the first place if
> the capture template does not contain %x.  Not that I think this would
> solve my deeper problem but it does seem like a good idea to check the
> template before pulling the clipboard contents as a matter of course.
>

That's probably true, but they *are* supposed to be fairly fast calls,
so a little inefficiency might not be too important. Besides, you
wouldn't have known that you have a problem with X selections if org
were more efficient :-)

> In any case it seems unintentional to me that using a capture template
> should induce 6 calls to org-get-x-clipboard and 24 calls to
> x-get-selection.
>

org-capture-fill-template can call org-get-x-clipboard from 4 to 6 times
and org-get-x-clipboard can call x-get-selection from 1 to 4 times, so
x-get-selection can be called from 4 to 24 times in each capture - you
got the worst-case scenario: 24 is the maximum. In my case, I had 4
calls to org-get-x-clipboard and 11 calls to x-get-selection. And at 3ms
per call, even 24 calls is probably insignificant - but not at 5s a call!

Nick




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