Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-11-08 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
York Zhao writes: > Needlessly to say that `org-mode' is fantastic, but with this issue, I have to > say that `org-mode' is unhealthy. Therefore, I really hope this issue gets > addressed. Please let me know what I can do to help. With your initial file, benchmarking a C-c C-c on the last table,

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-11-08 Thread York Zhao
>> > I learned that the hard way when I had one table - four columns, three >> > simple >> > addition formulas with about 1,000 entries. It seemed an eternity before >> > the >> > addition was completed. >> >> I guess the "entries" here mean the table rows right? Please confirm. >> > You are correc

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-31 Thread Charles Millar
Hi York, York Zhao wrote: @Charlie Millar: > IIRC Carsten Dominik made the following observation: org tables are extremely > slow if they are used as workbooks/spreadsheets and there are many entries > (many is undefined). Thanks for the information, could you please clarify what "entry" m

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-31 Thread York Zhao
@Charlie Millar: > IIRC Carsten Dominik made the following observation: org tables are extremely > slow if they are used as workbooks/spreadsheets and there are many entries > (many is undefined). Thanks for the information, could you please clarify what "entry" means? Does it mean org headline,

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-31 Thread Charles Millar
Hi Michael, Michael Brand wrote: Hi Charles First I would like to point out that to my understanding there are now two separate issues in discussion in this thread which are easy to mix up: 1) The same table calculates fast or slow depending on the position within the same entry, see OP. I

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-31 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Michael Brand writes: > 1) The same table calculates fast or slow depending on the position >within the same entry, see OP. Note that this is due to org-table.el overusing `org-current-line'. It should be factored out of the library at some point. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-31 Thread Charles Millar
Earlier today I attempted to send the following. Charles Millar wrote: Hi Michael, Michael Brand wrote: Hi Charles First I would like to point out that to my understanding there are now two separate issues in discussion in this thread which are easy to mix up: 1) The same table calculates fas

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-31 Thread Charles Millar
Hi Michael > Michael Brand wrote: >> Hi Charles >> >> First I would like to point out that to my understanding there are now >> two separate issues in discussion in this thread which are easy to mix >> up: >> >> 1) The same table calculates fast or slow depending on the position >> within the

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-29 Thread Michael Brand
Hi Charles First I would like to point out that to my understanding there are now two separate issues in discussion in this thread which are easy to mix up: 1) The same table calculates fast or slow depending on the position within the same entry, see OP. 2) An entry with nothing but a single

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-29 Thread Charles Millar
Hi, York Zhao wrote: I think Org 8.3 should improve the situation. Please test it if you can. I was aware that my "emacs -Q" test was done against org-mode version 8.2.x. However, I use the latest org-mode from Git everyday. For example, the version I'm currently using is (from M-x org-version)

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-29 Thread York Zhao
> I think Org 8.3 should improve the situation. Please test it if you can. I was aware that my "emacs -Q" test was done against org-mode version 8.2.x. However, I use the latest org-mode from Git everyday. For example, the version I'm currently using is (from M-x org-version): "Org-mode version 8.

Re: [O] Extremely slow org-table operations

2014-10-29 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, York Zhao writes: > A few months ago I tried Emacs 24.4 and was disappointed because almost all of > the org-table operations became AT LEAST ten times slower. Because recently > Emacs 24.4 gets officially released, I finally switched over. However, the > problems I had several months ago