Vim in Arch slower than in other distros

hardframed · 2008-01-23 14:58:39

Under my arch system, the vim text editor is much slower than under any distro. I wonder why this is? May it be all the colorschemes I loaded?

May it be that the arch build is too big of a bundle? (w/gvim etc.)
I just want my fav. text editor to be as fast as it is under ubunutu:/

version number for ubuntu is: 7.1.56
version number foir arch is: 7.1.228

Please, if anyone have tips to speeding up my vim, please send me some hints

Last edited by hardframed (2008-01-23 19:10:14)

thayer · 2008-01-23 15:26:08

Hrmm... I use vim daily (if not hourly), but I don't find it to be any slower (or faster really) than on any other distro, including ubuntu and fedora. I would almost be willing to bet though, that due to the high number of dedicated vim users among the Arch developers, that vim is about as optimized as one would expect.

Also, as for as I can tell there are no GUI components (gvim) included with the standard vim build so I'm not sure where you found that info...I could be wrong, of course.

If you have a lot of customizations in your .vimrc and/or have lots of themes, I would definitely try to remove them temporarily and see if there's an increase in performance.

PS: This thread might be more appropriate in the Workstation User category--you may not get a lot of coverage here.

Last edited by thayer (2008-01-23 15:27:21)

tomk · 2008-01-23 16:22:05

Moved to Workstation User - thanks thayer.

hardframed - I'd recommend you also edit the topic to something more appropriate e.g. "Vim in Arch slower than in other distros".

buttons · 2008-01-23 17:02:59

Gvim and Vim are separate packages in Arch, and I also cannot tell the difference between distros. I even fired up ubuntu to make sure.

Just what to you mean by "slow," anyway? Slow doing what?

phrakture · 2008-01-23 17:21:36

Is it faster with "vim -u NONE -U NONE" ? If so, then it's a plugin problem.

enrique · 2008-01-23 18:30:48

If cursorline is enabled, e.g ""set cursorline", vim will scroll very slow, especial on large file. Try to disabled it and see if it helps.

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Vim in Arch slower than in other distros

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