Re: Slow/poor responsiveness in org files

[Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>]

18/08/11 09:49, Bastien
> Hi Tim,
>
> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> About a week or so ago, I updated emacs from bzr and saw that org 7.7
>> had been merged in. Since then, I have also noticed a distinct delay
>> when performing various editing operations within org files. For
>> example, killing a line wiht C-k in an org mode buffer is taking about
>> 4 seconds!
>
> This might come either from Org and/or from Emacs.
>
>> I updated emacs and tried again with emacs -Q and got the same result
>>
>> My version is 24.0.50 bzr relno 105475
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this? 
>
> Yes.
>
>> What would be the best way to debug this sort of issue, emacs
>> profiler?
>
> Four tests would be useful:
>
> - Emacs 23 + Org 7.4
> - Emacs 23 + Org 7.7
> - Emacs 24 (from trunk) + Org 7.4
> - Emacs 24 (from trunk) + Org 7.7
>
> For each case, M-x elp-instrument-package RET org-mode RET to
> see if there is any particular function that takes significantly
> more time.  
>
> I'm busy fixing small bugs in Org 7.7 but fixing such slowniness
> is high priority and such tests would really help me *a lot*.
>
> Thanks in advance!

Also try setting bidi-display-reordering to nil and see if that changes
anything.