[Question] Document Size and Performance

[iamrecursion]

I'd love to try this plugin out, but I'm slightly worried that due to the eager evaluation model (it seems to try and parse all code blocks in a page eagerly) it won't cope with large files? I don't necessarily want to use it in massive files, but I'm more worried about opening a huge file in general and having things bog down. Are there any plans to make it less eagerly evaluated?

[victorb]

Yeah, #2 would alleviate this concern a bit I believe. Another way could be to not do anything with any code block until the user presses or a "Run" button next to the code block.

Another thing you could do already is changing the Code-block Language setting to something else than clojure (like clojure-eval), and then Wielder would only look for code-blocks defined with clojure-eval and evaluate those instead, so if you have a large document with tons of clojure blocks already, this could help you.

Personally, I tend to split my documents over many pages once they get over a certain size (because it becomes easier to manage and less jumping up/down to find stuff), so I haven't hit this issue myself yet.

But if it's a issue for you, we definitely should try something that could help prevent any performance issues. You think the above solutions could work in your case?

[iamrecursion]

Ooh! The code block language setting sounds perfect, but my install doesn't seem to have any settings at the moment? Is there something I have to do specially to add the settings pane?

[victorb]

Sorry for the delay @iamrecursion, somehow didn't get notified of your comment...

The settings panel should appear somewhere in the bottom of the general settings panel for Obsidian.

Looks like this for me:

[iamrecursion]

Strange. I'm not seeing it.

I wonder if it's related to the first error in #5?