Re: [O] What HW/SW issues influence org/Emacs performance?

2012-08-19 Thread Luis Anaya
Karl Voit writes: > I was thinking about which hardware and software attributes are the > most important factors for improving performance of Emacs and/or > Org-mode. The things I want to improve are It is an interesting question, but I think that it is not restricted to Emacs or Org. Without g

Re: [O] What HW/SW issues influence org/Emacs performance?

2012-08-19 Thread Karl Voit
* Nick Dokos wrote: > Karl Voit wrote: > >> What do you think are the most important factors? >> >> - CPU speed (of one core) >> - type of CPU >> - # CPU cores >> - 32bit kernel vs. 64bit kernel >> - faster I/O (through HDD->SSD or even faster SSD) >> - choice of the file system (optimized for s

Re: [O] What HW/SW issues influence org/Emacs performance?

2012-08-19 Thread Nick Dokos
Karl Voit wrote: > > What do you think are the most important factors? > > - CPU speed (of one core) > - type of CPU > - # CPU cores > - 32bit kernel vs. 64bit kernel > - faster I/O (through HDD->SSD or even faster SSD) > - choice of the file system (optimized for something? what?) > - operatin

Re: [O] What HW/SW issues influence org/Emacs performance?

2012-08-19 Thread Achim Gratz
Karl Voit writes: > On my system [3] I notice 100% load on one of my two cores when > Emacs is generating the agenda views. So I am not sure whether more > cores could increase the performance. Probably a faster CPU? Is > there something that makes Emacs use multiple cores in parallel? No, Emacs i

[O] What HW/SW issues influence org/Emacs performance?

2012-08-19 Thread Karl Voit
Hi! I was thinking about which hardware and software attributes are the most important factors for improving performance of Emacs and/or Org-mode. The things I want to improve are (1) startup time of GNU Emacs (nice to have, no priority) (2) using Org-mode agenda with approx. 20 Org-files (3)