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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bug: fragile org refile cache
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 14:59:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z01d3j3.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s6jpo8$ejb$1@ciao.gmane.io>

Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> Some additions. org-outline-path-cache is used solely by 
> org-refile-get-targets (maybe there are some calls in other packages) 
> but it efficiency is questionable. It was not clear for me earlier that 
> the cache is reset before each scan through a buffer. So if 
> org-refile-use is disabled, org-outline-path-cache from previous run of 
> org-refile or org-goto is not used as well. A query to 
> org-outline-path-cache requires at least one backward search and hash 
> lookup. During sequential scan in org-refile-get-targets it is enough to 
> have previous heading path to update it when new heading is found. I 
> think, org-outline-path-cache should be deprecated.

At least helm-org-ql and helm-org are using `org-get-outline-path' with
cache. I do think it is useful. Though, indeed, not as fast as
single-pass scan. Probably, we can rewrite the code of
`org-get-outline-path' instead of deprecating it?

>> Just cleanup heading text:
>
> I have realized what is wrong with this benchmark. It runs so fast 
> because it matches no headings, so it never spent time for cleaning them up.

Oh. You are right. I tested with fixed benchmark and it is indeed much slower.

> On 29/04/2021 21:12, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> For the cleaned heading text, I do not think that re-calculating the
>> heading text on each change is a good idea. It may degrade typing
>> latency. Yet, an acceptable approach could be simply invalidating cache
>> for the changed headings. Then, outline paths can be re-calculated on
>> changed headings when needed.
>
> I agree that it is enough to invalidate cleaned heading on edit to 
> refresh it in org-refile-get-targets. On the other hand, I still prefer 
> text properties since they could be fetched even if some lines have been 
> added or removed before. Position-based cache is useless in such cases.

Note that `org-refresh-category-properties' is using pretty much same
idea. However, there is no automatic invalidation and one needs to run
org-refresh-category-properties to ensure that cache is up to date.

Alternatively, markers can be used here. They will not be invalidated by
changes in buffer.

> Concerning typing latency, it should be postponed and resumed when no 
> new edits is performed for certain period of time (~1s). However I am 
> unsure if it is possible to accurately track all affected lines since 
> later changes can add/remove lines before the line scheduled for 
> invalidation.

As one option, we can accumulate the changed regions in some variable
and process them on timer. As I remember, org-element-cache is already
doing something similar. In fact, org-element-cache might be modified to
handle outline-path as well. The problem is that org-element-cache has
some difficult bugs. I tried using it multiple times and ran into issues
I was not able to debug. I may work on this in future.

Best,
Ihor


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-02  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-28 16:09 [PATCH] Bug: fragile org refile cache Maxim Nikulin
2021-04-29  0:50 ` Samuel Wales
2021-04-29  1:29   ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-04-29  1:34     ` Samuel Wales
2021-04-29 12:45       ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-04-29 14:12         ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-04-29 15:04           ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-04-29 16:08             ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-04-29 16:51               ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-04-30 16:56               ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-01 14:48               ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-02  6:59                 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2021-05-04 16:55                   ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-05-05  0:53                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-04-29 13:30       ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-04-29 19:17         ` Tim Cross
2021-04-29 22:43           ` Samuel Wales
2021-05-02  7:03           ` Ihor Radchenko

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