dotfiles VS impatient.nvim

Nope it's a custom mix with fzf and git, you can have more details from this commit in my dotfiles : https://github.com/Sanix-Darker/dotfiles/commit/1c606b22e6ab2dd62638ff840e042eb394dae2b2

I have installed Ag + fzf installed in my stack and i think it's the best combo i ever had to do, it's fast, not releated to nvim processes, since a long time ! On nvim, i have : fzf-preview, vim-floaterm and vista.vim and i can basically do any kind of search on anything: - Search in lines for specifics or all buffers - Search for all files from a directory - Search globally (files, lines, ...) - Search for new changes (git changes or local-history changes) - Search for tags (functions names/ class names / variables) Personally, i don't like Treesitter nvim (nvim-treesitter) because it's embed as a plugin on nvim, so if nvim is running slowly, these feature are going to be impacted ! At the other-hand, fzf/ag are running independently from nvim as a bash command, and am just dealing with their stdout 🙂 Of course, this is my choice and it may be like by you ! PS: my dotfiles : https://github.com/Sanix-Darker/dotfiles (tmux, polybar, rofi, nvim... all included)

You could use impatient.nvim or the new vim.loader module if you’re on nightly. Both work really well. I used impatient for a long time and it reduced my startup time by half. I’m using vim.loader now and it reduces it by about the same amount

The 20-30 ms promise depends on your hardware. In my case, vanilla Neovim takes about 18 ms to startup, so a realistic good startup time for my config is around 50-60 ms. Lines of code isn’t a great reference either because you could just lazy load a bunch of plugins and have more LoC but still better startup times. What I would recommend is using lazy.nvim or if you wanna stick with packer, then pairing it with impatient.nvim .

automatically caches all startup code before :h VimEnter or :h BufReadPre (basically what impatient.nvim does)

there is an amazing plugin called impatient.nvim that cache a lot of stuff and make other pluggins go so fast !

Try installing https://github.com/lewis6991/impatient.nvim first.

:lua vim.pretty_print(vim.mpack.decode(vim.mpack.encode({some = { thing = false }}))) used by impatient.nvim

Did you defined your [[ and ]] mappings in that file or just created it? the after directory runs at the end of your config so you can override this kind of settings. Maybe you are using impatient.nvim? From their README:

Are you using impatient.nvim? It caches lua modules. My startuptime with 72 plugins (including it) and zero lazy loading is 600ms.