On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
When hacking the org-icons stuff, I came to realize that emacs allows
to attach any set or property/value to any part of a buffer.
It seems to me like org-mode could perfectly use this as a caching
mechanism.
What bout storing time-expensive informations as special properties
attached to the first '*' of a heading ?
The price to pay would be to enforce the consistency of this cache --
as with any cache, after all; as a benefit, this may boost org-mode's
performances.
What do you think ?
I have been there, and I am using stuff like that for column view.
However, Org-mode's commitment to plain text makes it possible
that text is being changed behind its back, so most of the
time, complete rescans are appropriate. Keeping a cache consistent
would be a huge problem.
- Carsten
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