Vim turns to be slow after enabling some plugins, how to find which leads the problem?

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Vim itself is very fast. But it turns to be slow after enabling some plugins. How to find which plugin leads the slowness of Vim?

You may use the profiling mechanisms in Vim. Please check a tutorial on profiling Vim.

For profiling Vim startup:

vim --startuptime profile.log

For profiling certain actions in Vim:

:profile start profile.log
:profile func *
:profile file *

do actions here

:profile pause
:wq

Eric Ma

Eric is a systems guy. Eric is interested in building high-performance and scalable distributed systems and related technologies. The views or opinions expressed here are solely Eric's own and do not necessarily represent those of any third parties.

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