On Tuesday, 3 Nov 2015 at 20:01, John Wiegley wrote: [...]
> I'm having a hard time buying the performance argument, since I've been using > Org-mode for many years, and never has this been a problem. You're making me > pay a cost (enforced structure), for a value only one of us perceives. John, others *have* found issues with performance. In 8.2, org struggled with many of my documents, some of which are very large. Most, if not all, of the performance problems I was having have disappeared since then (thank you Nicolas!). I cannot attribute the improvements directly to the move to a fixed structure for headline meta-data but I can easily believe that this move has contributed due to anecdotal experience with complex sections within my org files. This does not mean I am against your suggestion of a variable controlling this behaviour. Maybe implement it and post a patch for the community to try out? I am perfectly happy with the current format, however, so would be unlikely to try it. (sorry) -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.2-209-gba4d33
