Re: [O] faster agenda with properties support disabled (no org-refresh-properties)

[Carsten Dominik]

On 12.8.2013, at 05:43, Daniel Clemente <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>> 
>> M-x elp-instrument-package org
>> M-x elp-reset-all
>> <run your workload>
>> M-x elp-results
> 
>  Incidentally I ran that and I saw:
> 
> org-agenda                                                    1           
> 15.709354028  15.709354028
> org-agenda-list                                               1           
> 15.495628529  15.495628529
> org-agenda-prepare                                            1           
> 8.388162561   8.388162561
> org-agenda-prepare-buffers                                    1           
> 8.349513929   8.349513929
> org-agenda-get-day-entries                                    477         
> 5.7457141640  0.0120455223
> org-agenda-get-scheduled                                      477         
> 2.0763930930  0.0043530253
> org-agenda-get-timestamps                                     477         
> 2.046089454   0.0042894957
> org-set-regexps-and-options-for-tags                          164         
> 1.8202055340  0.0110988142
> org-refresh-properties                                        318         
> 1.3865960840  0.0043603650
> org-refresh-category-properties                               159         
> 1.1616332550  0.0073058695
> org-agenda-get-deadlines                                      477         
> 0.5512838650  0.0011557313
> org-agenda-get-blocks                                         477         
> 0.5356222019  0.0011228976
> org-get-todo-state                                            3581        
> 0.4114158859  0.0001148885
> org-agenda-get-sexps                                          477         
> 0.4037585499  0.0008464539
> …
> 
>  I looked at org-refresh-properties.
> 
>  In org.el there is:
> 
> (defun org-agenda-prepare-buffers (files)
> …
>           (org-refresh-category-properties)
>           (org-refresh-properties org-effort-property 'org-effort)
>           (org-refresh-properties "APPT_WARNTIME" 'org-appt-warntime)
> …
> 
>  Since I am not using effort/category/appointment properties in my agenda, I 
> would like to disable it. I commented it in the code and I get the same 
> agenda but 2'4 seconds faster (even more than 1'4 from 
> org-refresh-properties). The new instrumentation report is:
> 
> org-agenda                                                    1           
> 13.345656663  13.345656663
> org-agenda-list                                               1           
> 13.113396681  13.113396681
> org-agenda-prepare                                            1           
> 7.086576653   7.086576653
> org-agenda-prepare-buffers                                    1           
> 7.054057855   7.054057855
> org-agenda-get-day-entries                                    477         
> 5.7340928759  0.0120211590
> org-agenda-get-scheduled                                      477         
> 3.3844209709  0.0070952221
> org-set-regexps-and-options-for-tags                          164         
> 1.8059163709  0.0110116851
> org-refresh-properties                                        318         
> 1.3982702620  0.0043970762
> org-refresh-category-properties                               159         
> 1.1513761240  0.0072413592
> org-agenda-get-timestamps                                     477         
> 0.6975214329  0.0014623090
> org-agenda-get-deadlines                                      477         
> 0.557952655   0.0011697120
> org-agenda-get-blocks                                         477         
> 0.533165758   0.0011177479
> org-agenda-skip                                               3977        
> 0.4244523499  0.0001067267
> …
> 
>  So I would like to ask: is there a clean way to disable calls to 
> org-refresh-properties?

No, that would require a patch and a config variable.

- Carsten

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