Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Grant Rettke <gcr <at> wisdomandwonder.com> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > My org file has a lot of text in it. It really needs to be in the same > > file though, so it is a big file. > > > > When I org-babel-tangle, I would like to speed it up as it takes 8 minutes. > > 8 minutes? wow ... >
Just guessing at this, but ... I suspect Grant's file has noweb chunks and that `org-babel-use-quick-and-dirty-noweb-expansion' is set to nil. If the :noweb-ref feature is not used, setting that variable to t will make a time difference of a couple of orders of magnitude. HTH, Chuck