Hi,

I'm using planner-mode to manage my projects in a research lab. I  
couldn't live without it, but I can't ignore speed problems which keep  
getting more and more pressing as my projects advance. I press C-c C-p  
each morning to update my HTML task list (see  
http://www.mhoenicka.de/software/hacks/tasklist.html) and to publish  
the changed planner pages to HTML. This process takes approx. 10  
minutes these days. I can live with that, although my box (a Pentium 4  
2.4GHz 768MB RAM) is essentially locked due to the modest hardware,  
but it's just not convenient.

Usually only half a dozen pages need to be published every day. The  
sizes are approx. one or two printed page using the HTML output, so  
this shouldn't be a problem. I reckon the problem is in generating the  
index. Currently there are approx. 1100 muse pages. As far as I  
understand, generating the index requires planner to peek into each  
file to collect the data for the calendar-based index, whereas the  
page-based index should just require a directory listing. OTOH my  
taskmm add-on (see http://www.mhoenicka.de/software/hacks/taskmm.html)  
also traverses all non-day muse files to collect the backlinks. This  
Perl script takes approx. 3 seconds to finish. So what does Emacs do  
in the remaining 10 minutes?

My platform is a Windows XP box running NTEmacs 23.1.1. I use Cygwin  
bash as a shell although I'm not sure if publishing planner projects  
involves any shell commands.

What are my options besides doing the obvious (ditch the box and get  
recent hardware)?

regards,
Markus

-- 
Markus Hoenicka
http://www.mhoenicka.de
AQ score 38



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