This commits introduces two performance improvements in incremental sync: * avoiding expensive lua string reallocations on each on_lines call by requesting only the changed chunk of the buffer as reported by firstline and new_lastline parameters of on_lines * re-using already allocated tables for storing the resulting lines to reduce the load on the garbage collector The majority of the performance improvement is from requesting only changed chunks of the buffer. Benchmark: The following code measures the time required to perform a buffer edit to that operates individually on each line, common to plugins such as vim-commentary. set rtp+=~/.config/nvim/plugged/nvim-lspconfig set rtp+=~/.config/nvim/plugged/vim-commentary lua require('lspconfig')['ccls'].setup({}) function! Benchmark(tries) abort let results_comment = [] let results_undo = [] for i in range(a:tries) echo printf('run %d', i+1) let begin = reltime() normal gggcG call add(results_comment, reltimefloat(reltime(begin))) let begin = reltime() silent! undo call add(results_undo, reltimefloat(reltime(begin))) redraw endfor let avg_comment = 0.0 let avg_undo = 0.0 for i in range(a:tries) echomsg printf('run %3d: comment=%fs undo=%fs', i+1, results_comment[i], results_undo[i]) let avg_comment += results_comment[i] let avg_undo += results_undo[i] endfor echomsg printf('average: comment=%fs undo=%fs', avg_comment / a:tries, avg_undo / a:tries) endfunction command! -bar Benchmark call Benchmark(10) All text changes will be recorded within a single undo operation. Both the comment operation itself and the undo operation will generate an on_lines event for each changed line. Formatter plugins using setline() have also been found to exhibit the same problem (neoformat, :RustFmt in rust.vim), as this function too generates an on_lines event for every line it changes. Using the neovim codebase as an example (commit |
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Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:
- Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions
- Split the work between multiple developers
- Enable advanced UIs without modifications to the core
- Maximize extensibility
See the Introduction wiki page and Roadmap for more information.
Features
- Modern GUIs
- API access from any language including C/C++, C#, Clojure, D, Elixir, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, Racket, Ruby, Rust
- Embedded, scriptable terminal emulator
- Asynchronous job control
- Shared data (shada) among multiple editor instances
- XDG base directories support
- Compatible with most Vim plugins, including Ruby and Python plugins
See :help nvim-features
for the full list!
Install from package
Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux are found on the Releases page.
Managed packages are in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Gentoo, and more!
Install from source
See the Building Neovim wiki page for details.
The build is CMake-based, but a Makefile is provided as a convenience. After installing the dependencies, run the following command.
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
sudo make install
To install to a non-default location:
make CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/full/path/
make install
CMake hints for inspecting the build:
cmake --build build --target help
lists all build targets.build/CMakeCache.txt
(orcmake -LAH build/
) contains the resolved values of all CMake variables.build/compile_commands.json
shows the full compiler invocations for each translation unit.
Transitioning from Vim
See :help nvim-from-vim
for instructions.
Project layout
├─ ci/ build automation
├─ cmake/ build scripts
├─ runtime/ user plugins/docs
├─ src/nvim/ application source code (see src/nvim/README.md)
│ ├─ api/ API subsystem
│ ├─ eval/ VimL subsystem
│ ├─ event/ event-loop subsystem
│ ├─ generators/ code generation (pre-compilation)
│ ├─ lib/ generic data structures
│ ├─ lua/ Lua subsystem
│ ├─ msgpack_rpc/ RPC subsystem
│ ├─ os/ low-level platform code
│ └─ tui/ built-in UI
├─ third-party/ CMake subproject to build dependencies
└─ test/ tests (see test/README.md)
License
Neovim contributions since b17d96 are licensed under the
Apache 2.0 license, except for contributions copied from Vim (identified by the
vim-patch
token). See LICENSE for details.
Vim is Charityware. You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are
encouraged to make a donation for needy children in Uganda. Please see the
kcc section of the vim docs or visit the ICCF web site, available at these URLs:
http://iccf-holland.org/
http://www.vim.org/iccf/
http://www.iccf.nl/
You can also sponsor the development of Vim. Vim sponsors can vote for
features. The money goes to Uganda anyway.