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How to improve Komodo's editing performance

OS: All / Any | Product: Komodo | tags: komodo performance
Question: 

In what ways can I increase the performance of the Komodo application?

Answer: 

There are numerous components inside of Komodo that can become a performance hindrance, especially on older computing machines. Luckily, there are a number of features and components that can be turned off. Here are a few of these most common performance sensitive components that can be disabled:

  • Code Intelligence autocomplete and calltips (fires from editor key press events)
  • Syntax checking, aka linting (fires after code changes)
  • Disable wordwrap, as this can become intensive for files with long lines
  • Disable folding, this intensifies the code parsing process
  • Ensure there are no mixed line endings (will show up as green squiggles)
  • If using Komodo IDE SCC integration, ensure the "Do recursive status checks" preference is turned off

Feel free to add others as you come across them.

Cheers,
Todd