Neovim felt quite slow compared to vim, it appears that every ebuild in portage from 25 october 2015 on has been passing CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelDebWithInfo to CMake instead of 'Release' or 'Gentoo' build type. Neovim's CMakeLists.txt overrides RelWithDebInfo compiler optimization flag with -Og whenever available from the usual -O2. Despite the claims of -Og being generating quite optimized binaries, it is sadly not the case in my experience (and even worse, -Og is often slower than -O2 to compile). In practice, replacing RelDebWithInfo with Release has led to a 3 fold improvement in vim (hot cache) startup time. I expect editing experience to be better too. Would you consider making the switch in the ebuilds?
Sounds good to me. I'm going to put in the change in a second.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=42d0016301e042830b684755ab94048977043821 commit 42d0016301e042830b684755ab94048977043821 Author: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-01-07 16:03:59 +0000 Commit: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-01-07 16:37:10 +0000 app-editors/neovim: switch CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Release. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/643712 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.13, Repoman-2.3.3 app-editors/neovim/neovim-0.2.0-r1.ebuild | 4 ++-- app-editors/neovim/neovim-0.2.2-r1.ebuild | 4 ++-- app-editors/neovim/neovim-9999.ebuild | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
