Re: [O] Largest org file you have + performance

[Matt Lundin]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> My largest org file is QuanSongCi.org, contains ci poetry of Song
> dynasty, about 6MB size.
>
> Editing in emacs is very slow, save needs to wait about
> minutes. convert to html needs to wait about minutes, too. So,
> sometimes, sed like tools is preferred to do editing and converting.

Thanks for these details. I can report similar experiences with large files.

As far as I understand, large org-mode buffers are slow because there
are many overlays, which (unlike text properties), don't scale well:

(info "(elisp) Overlays")

This is right now an inescapable limitation of org-mode, since
outline-mode relies on overlays.

There was brief talk on emacs-dev of rewriting text-properties so that
outline-mode could use them instead of overlays, but I do not believe
the proposal was pursued further:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/131304

Best,
Matt