Performance Test for Mvtn.el

This repository contains note generator for mvtn.el. It can be used to test the performance of mvtn.el with a very large amount of notes.

The Results

While I have not bothered measuring the exact performance, I can report that at least on my system (nvme ssd + i7-1165G7), the performance is good even with more than 800 notes per year (see config/heavy_note_taker.py). Listing notes takes almost no time at all and the backlink buffer updates within ~0.5 seconds even when using grep rather than rg. Performance only drops when setting mvtn-search-years to a higher value than the default 3.

Running it Yourself

To run the performance tests, first install the dependencies (GNU make, Python 3, Emacs, Git). Then clone the repository with submodules:

git clone --recurse-submodules \
  https://github.com/dominiksta/mvtn.el-performance-test

After that, you can generate the test notes and launch a basic emacs configuration with mvnt with the run.py script:

python3 run.py run --config <config>

<config> is the name of one of the files in generator/config. For example, to see how mvtn performs for a rather heavy note taker, you can run

python3 run.py run --config heavy_note_taker