thank you. i will give up on archiving categories if needed to make archiving be practical. will ahfe to try it as soon as i can.
On 8/11/21, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: > >> thanks for the clarification. are you saying that, for every archived >> entry, it calculates teh category property, using the original org >> file, in order to add a category property to just one archived entry? > > Nope. It does not just calculate category for the archived entry, but > re-calculates all the category properties in the original Org file > (updating category cache). > >> that would certainly slow down more and more, but it sends me back to >> my question about whether append to file would work. >> i.e. build the single entry in a temporary buffer then write that >> region to a file on disk. > > Appending can indeed work if your archive location is at the end of the > file. However, it is not necessary the performance bottleneck. Certainly > not when the archive file is small. > > Best, > Ihor > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
