The `org-set-property` [C-c C-x p] command is very slow on a big Org-mode buffer. I checked out the source code of `org-set-property`. The main slow is on `org-buffer-property-keys`. I think it can use the new org-mode cache mechanism. Instead of re-parse the whole org-mode buffer again to spend a lot of time.
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