Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > Colin Baxter <m43...@yandex.com> writes: > >> I too would like a means to disable org-persist. I don't doubt it may be >> useful for those users with "large" org files with multiply src-blocks, >> etc., etc., but, for me, I have not found any improvement in >> performance. As remarked by the OP, the feature should not be >> default-enabled. > > Note that org-persist is not only used to cache parser data for large > files. For example, exported online images are also cached instead of > being downloaded on every export. Other things may also be cached in > future.
Upon further investigation, it looks like we need Org persist all the time. As temporary storage, at least. In particular, downloading remote images requires org-persist to store files somewhere. All the times. > That being said, it should not be a big deal to allow disabling > org-persist when desired. In fact, org-persist is already auto-disabled > when using emacs -Q. I can add a user switch on top. So, we cannot disable org-persist and should not even do it with Emacs -Q. Instead, we may redirect org-persist-directory to /tmp in some scenarios. I will look into doing this soon. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
