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
You should also be able to use it with neovim:
$ vim-plugins-profiler -e nvim
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
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
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.