Bastien <b...@altern.org> writes: >> I have seven agenda files, all not too big (~10K on average), and I >> use an averagely performant computer (5 years old dual core laptop). >> For me, the difference between `org-agenda-inhibit-startup' set to t >> or nil is not noticable at all. In both cases, it's less than a >> second, and that's a time I can easily live with. > > It really depends on what your agenda views are. > > The real test is this: create a 50K file with folded one headline and > many second level TODO entries.
Ok, the testfile looks like --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * The folded top-level headline ** TODO Some test todo headline 0 - also some contents ** TODO Some test todo headline 1 - also some contents --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and has 2000 such subheadlines. File size is 127K. `org-startup-folded' is t. > Then have an agenda view search for those TODO items. Do you get the > same difference in this case? It takes approximately 9-10 seconds to build a TODO agenda (C-c o a t), no matter if `org-agenda-inhibit-startup' is t or nil. The week agenda takes less than a second with both settings. Before each agenda invocation, I've deleted all org buffers of course. I must admit I didn't really profile but just counted in my mind. But I did it several times, so it's super-scientific and you should trust me. ;-) So now I've increased the number of subentries to 8000 resulting in a file size of 492K, and I've used a stop-watch for measuring. | org-agenda-inhibit-startup | time TODO agenda | time week agenda | |----------------------------+------------------+------------------| | nil | 2min1sec | 1sec / 9sec | | t | 2min18sec | 1sec / 29sec | I've performed these tests several times. The times with respect to TODO agenda creation were pretty much consistent. However, the times with respect to week agenda creation were usually around 1 second, but there were some strange outliers I have no explanation for (the 9 and the 29 seconds one). But in any case, if there was a noticable difference, the "org-agenda-inhibit-startup set to nil"-version was even faster than the "optimized" version. Bye, Tassilo
