Re: [O] Performance of table computing

[Jacob Nielsen]

Sebastien Vauban <address@hidden>
writes:

> Hello,
>
> In one of my Org files, I have 20 small tables. Among them, 11 have
> a line of formula's (TBLFM), mainly for computing a total (sum), so
> that's in essence relatively standard and simple.
>
> The file in itself is quite big (11,000 lines), but I did not expect to
> see that re-applying formulas to all of them would take 30 seconds... at
> every save... since I did add the following to my `.emacs' file:
Try this:
# -*- cache-long-scans: nil; -*-
# This makes forward-line much faster and thus org-goto-line
# and thus org-table-sum (C-c +)

My org file is 9990 lines without any tblfmt but I do summations on
columns on small tables once a week (invoicing for the week).

The speed of C-c + was driving me nuts.
> [snip]
> Is my observation shared?
>
Sadly, yes but setting cache-long-scans made me happy again.

Best regards,
Jacob