Ag Ibragimov writes: > While going through the source code, I've noticed that org-agenda-list > scans all the files in org-agenda-files and processes all Org items > those files contain. > > However, it seems when org-agenda-max-entries or org-agenda-max-todos > are not nil, it still processes every entry, and only after building > the agenda it reduces the number of items in the list. It's okay, but > if you have lots of files and tons of entries, it seems to be waste of > time and resources.
Hmm, it seems that org-agenda-finalize-entries sorts all the entries before looking at org-agenda-max-entries and org-agenda-max-todos (which makes sense), so wouldn't it generally need the entire set?