Re: [O] How to make agenda generation faster

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-10-11, at 08:48, Michael Welle <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 2018-10-08, at 09:20, Michael Welle <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
>>> Well, on my laptop the initial agenda run takes about 7s or so (150
>>> agenda files) using the current day/week agenda ("a"). All subsequent
>>> (after loading the files) agenda runs are fast (split second I would
>>> say). I had some performance issues in the past caused by SCM. Emacs
>>> tried to check if every file is checked out in the latest version. That
>>> slowed down the process a lot (starting 150 mercurial processes in
>>> sequential order, checking results, etc.). The initial run doesn't
>>> bother me much. I bound the initial agenda run to an idle timer at Emacs
>>> start.
>>
>> Interesting.  I did not notice such differences between the first and
>> subsequent runs.
> I thought that behaviour is natural, scanning dirs for files and opening
> them is a costly operation. But a week ago I changed from rotating rust
> to solid state disks and that behaviour did not change much. I expected
> a speed up, but mee.

Ah, I have /visiting/ all my agenda files (but not generating the agenda
itself) in my init.el.

That explains a lot.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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