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I have also found Sublime Text 3 to be much faster at common tasks than Sublime Text 2. It is going to be well worth the upgrade.

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I'm not trying to picky or anything, but what tasks did actually become faster? I'm only asking because my current ST2 (build 2220) is blazingly fast. Fuzzy search seems instant. Files open and preview instantly, even large binary ones. And there is no interface lag, even on a retina. The only thing that I can recall waiting on is using the package manager.

Startup times are drastically faster. Python plugins are now `out of process` and load async. Also, the very latest beta uses skia instead of cairo. The api is now thread safe which will mean less `Plugin x is taking too long` messages. And so on ... Even updating is faster, with the new binary diff based auto updater

"Startup times are drastically faster" - is that 1 millisecond as opposed to 2?

Startup time is more like 5-10s for me on a Core i5 iMac. Better than eclipse, not better than vim.

Same for me, i7 Win7. Thankfully I rarely have a reason to close ST2 once open.

I have a Core i5 MBP and ST3 takes 1 second or less to start.

It's actually so much faster, that the operating system's method of drawing windows is the prime determinant of startup speed perception. Surprisingly, the winning OS is windows.

Yeah the startup time is now instant for me which I love. Those few ms saved doesn't seem like much but for me it just makes things that little bit quicker.

"Files open and preview instantly, even large binary ones."

Really? Can you define large and define instantly? Because the one thing Sublime Text 2 really sucks at is opening large files, in my experience.

ST3 is better than ST2 in this area, but still noticeably slower than any other "programmer" editor I use.

I just opened a 1 gig movie file in ST2 and it took about a minute actually, so I was wrong about that one. My original comment was from my experience opening smaller log and image files.

Ah, ok. This matches my own experience then. Sublime Text 2 is very fast for normal types of operations and file opens but I find that once something gets to be 10s of megabytes log, it has some serious issues. Granted, if you have single source code files that are 10s of megabytes long then you're generally doing something wrong, but for situations where you unavoidably do have very large files, Sublime Text kind of sucks at opening them compared to just about every other programming-focused editor I've ever used.

I do like the program a lot, this is one of my few complaints (the other major one being that there's no ARM/Linux version).

I found ST3 to be only slighter faster at file switching. ST2 was really fast until I got a retina MacBook Pro, at which point it got very, very slow. Hitting cmd+T and typing stuff is noticeably laggy, sometimes taking nearly a second between each file. With ST3 it's very laggy, but it's not nearly as bad as that.

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