Editing speed - can be draggy Follow
Hi guys,
A common problem of mine has been editing speed. My project is now 11k and 15k with tests. Thats a lot of lines of scala code! The new FSC stuff is pretty awesome, but the primary issue for me is basic editing support. Here is a list of things that can be unbearbly slow for me:
- copying a line of code (cmd-c on a line with nothing selected)
- pasting code of just a few lines
- code completion tends to take at least 5 seconds to pop up anything
- alt-enter auto-fix for imports is pretty slow. It take takes 10+ seconds for intellij to give me the proper import, although the text is red after just a few seconds.
- other random lock ups
When I get the freezes, it is impossible to use the EAP "take a snapshot" because the entire UI is frozen. It's all wedged and bad.
I don't really know how to report this bug, since from my pov its a super basic usability thing. During these events, the CPU will spike to max possible, which means up to 400% or more on my quad mac pro. I run intellij on a mac book air, macbook pro, and mac pro all latest generation boxes and it happens on every one. Basically: pretty sure its not because my boxes are slow.
But I am pretty sure this is because our project is so "large". 11kloc in scala is a lot of scala. We don't really do anything special really, we have a maven project, with 2-3 modules of scala code, a few files of java code, but its 95%+ scala by loc.
Short of actually sending you my source, I'm not sure what I can provide here. I could run intellij under profiling for 10-20 minutes while I code, but I don't know how useful this would be.
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Take a look at the automatically captured thread dumps, as described here: http://devnet.jetbrains.net/docs/DOC-192 . Zip up the thread dumps them up and post them on this thread.
That document also has general tips on IntelliJ performance.
Disable "Autopopup Autocompletion", the Structure View, and keep the Project view in "Project", rather than "Packages"
-jason