[ESS] ESS: running blocks of script very slow

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

The slowdown has certainly been there for the last 5 years.  I have
always thought it had to do with fontification of the *R* buffer, but
that is pure speculation.

Personally, aside from the speedup, I like the behavior of
ess-eval-visibly-p.  And one could argue, that if you believe in "the
source code is real", you do not care about keeping track of what is
being sent to the *R* buffer.  My only problem with the behaviour is
that it currently does something like

+++++> POINT

where I would really like

+++++
> POINT

or perhaps ++++ exchanged with something like <SNIP>.


However, getting back to the discussion,  I can see that some people
would prefer to see the entire output.  And turning it off purely for
speed reasons seems to be less desirable.  Having said that, I have no
idea on how to start fixing it.

Kasper

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Matthew Landis <landis at isciences.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I guess for no other reason than that's what I'm used to.  But sometimes I
>> move the point and forget what exactly I submitted.  It's a very minor
>> issue, and certainly the advantages of ESS far outweigh this minor
>> inconvenience.
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Matthew Landis, Ph.D.
>> Research Scientist
>
> I think Matthew is right.  We shouldn't let him back down.
>
> This proposal makes it impossible to track a project.
>
> For record keeping and transmission of material to other people, it is
> very important to me to have 'what actually ran' in the same file with
> the results.  Perhaps Vitalie is still able to remember all of the
> commands he has ever run and can link them with the output sections of
> various files.  But  I can't.
>
> Turning off the commands in the output file is, well, throwing out too
> much.  Sometimes I'm working on something and save the output file and
> later wonder "what did I do that caused that"? And I can read the
> code.  Or somebody sends me something, and I wonder how they get it?
> I can't say how it looks on your system, but when I use
>
> (setq ess-eval-visibly-p nil)
>
> The R output buffer still shows individual lines that are sent to R,
> but just not regions.  So it produces a very horrible record of what
> happened.
>
> Now here's my question. Has this slowdown always been there?  I don't
> think I noticed it until about 8 or 10 months ago.  It is about the
> same time that Sweave started giving the ESS process not ready error.
> Is there a common cause?
>
> pj
>
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> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
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> University of Kansas
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