Re: Improving vim startuptime

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 07:58:07PM +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> And you think 2.7 seconds is unbearably long? I suppose I'm
> old-fashioned. When I started programming on a mainframe in the
> seventies (131072 six-bit characters, no virtual memory, no
> floating-point computations, no lowercase printing, 667 kHz, and it
> needed an air-conditioned hall bigger than the apartment I live in
> today) it took way longer than that to load a test program from its
> executable tape. Even after downloading the tested version to disk,
> three seconds would have been lightning-quick. Oh well, times change
> after all.
I am glad I wasn't born in the seventies then. Though the music was
awesome. ;)

> Try getting (or compiling) a minimal version of Vim without GUI
> (possibly called "vi") then load it as "vi -u NONE -N". Maybe you will
> regret its lack of features, and in particular its lack of GUI and its
> lack of configuration possibilities, but I expect it will load
> significantly faster. After you test it for some time, then maybe you
> will decide that 2.7 seconds wasn't so bad after all for the features
> you enjoyed. Or maybe you will be so enthusiastic about having a
> zip-fast (if feature-poor) Vim that you'll stay with it.
Well that's a way to go, but I really don't want to maintain my own
separate repo, as I don't even contribute to the upstream project in any
way. I am enjoying relying on my package manager to keep me updated.

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