Re: Why is Elisp slow?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2019-05-02, at 15:18, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 01:06:03PM +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> 
>> On 2019-05-02, at 09:56, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> [on elisp speed]
>
>> > I've yet to run into a serious limitation posed by its "slow" elisp
>> > implementation.
>> 
>> ...well, Org-mode agenda takes almost 30 seconds to generate for me...
>
> Perhaps this is more a case for fine tuning Org mode's algorithms &
> data structures? (I don't use agenda, so I don't really know what
> I'm talking about. Perhaps all of this is already done?)

I don't think so.  I just happen to have several thousand headlines in
my agenda files.  And AFAIK, agenda generation is already pretty
optimized.  So, this might be one (rare, admittedly) example of such
a limitation.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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