VIM PLUGINS PROFILER

vim-plugins-profiler is a small utility which outputs a sorted list of vim editor plugin startup times in millisec. Only vim plugins you have installed personally in your home directory are considered. This utility was written for Linux platforms but should work on other platforms as well, including Mac and Windows.

The latest version and documentation is available at https://github.com/bulletmark/vim-plugins-profiler.

Just run at command line, e.g.:

$ vim-plugins-profiler
   1:    16.759 (54.4%) nerdtree
   2:     4.248 (13.8%) vim-airline
   3:     2.880 ( 9.3%) delimitMate
   4:     2.000 ( 6.5%) tabular
   5:     1.596 ( 5.2%) emmet-vim
   6:     1.579 ( 5.1%) YouCompleteMe
   7:     0.668 ( 2.2%) ctrlp.vim
   8:     0.399 ( 1.3%) vim-surround
   9:     0.271 ( 0.9%) vim-better-whitespace
  10:     0.155 ( 0.5%) vim-commentary
  11:     0.141 ( 0.5%) autoload_cscope.vim
  12:     0.080 ( 0.3%) ag.vim
  13:     0.034 ( 0.1%) vim-javascript
  14:     0.015 ( 0.0%) typescript-vim
  15:     0.010 ( 0.0%) vim-vue

• The plugin startup times are in millisec, sorted from highest usage to lowest.
• The percentages are the percent of total plugin startup time (i.e. the total plugin time additional to normal vim startup time) that each plugin contributes.

You should also be able to use it with neovim:

$ vim-plugins-profiler -e nvim

USAGE

Type vim-plugins-profiler -h to view the usage summary:

usage: vim-plugins-profiler [-h] [-e EXE] [-r RUNS] [-n NUM]

Output sorted summary of VIM plugin startup times in millisecs.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -e EXE, --exe EXE     vim executable name or path, default="vim"
  -r RUNS, --runs RUNS  number of sample runs to average over, default=4
  -n NUM, --num NUM     limit output to given number of plugins

INSTALLATION

NOTE: Arch Linux users can just install vim-plugins-profiler from the AUR.

Python 3.6 or later is required. Note vim-plugins-profiler is on PyPI so just ensure that pipx is installed then type the following:

$ pipx install vim-plugins-profiler

To upgrade:

$ pipx upgrade vim-plugins-profiler

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2018 Mark Blakeney. This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more details.