Profiling Vim startup time

Question

I’ve got a lot of plugins enabled when using Vim – I have collected plugins over the years. I’m a bit fed up with how long Vim takes to start now, so I’d like to profile it

Answer 1

If you're loading your plugins from a .vimrc file, what you could do is put a q on some line part way through the file to make it quit so you can use a process timer, like the unix time command. More thoroughly, this would look like:

1. backup existing .vimrc file
2. comment out all but a select number of plugins
3. insert a q line
4. call time vim repeteadly and average
5. restore backup

This is not elegant but I think it will get the job done.