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I Miss Vim

by leblancfg on 1/29/25, 6:03 PM with 1 comments

• by stefanos82 on 1/29/25, 8:54 PM

  Vim 9 introduced new vim9script which improved performance by orders of magnitude from old vimscript.

  You can test those benchmarks yourself from late Bramm's repo README file: https://github.com/brammool/vim9

  My results are as follows:

    Indent time measurements
  
      888890                                                                                           
      Vim old:   0.678415                                                                              
      888890                                                                                           
      Python:   0.170969                                                                               
      888890                                                                                           
      Lua:   0.155279                                                                                  
      888890                                                                                           
      Vim new:   0.087310
  
  
      Sum time measurements:
  
      4499998500000                                                                                    
      Vim old:   6.286605                                                                              
      4499998500000                                                                                    
      Python:   0.439207                                                                               
      4499998500000                                                                                    
      Lua:   0.075501                                                                                  
      4499998500000                                                                                    
      Vim new:   0.119775
  
  

  The Lua used here is LuaJIT, not standard Lua!