Many moons ago, I made the common newb mistake of tricking out vim with all kinds of plugins and plugin loaders without really knowing what I was doing. I'm trying to clean things up a little. I'm still a little baffled, though.
I just discovered the vim --startuptime switch. I was looking at its output and noticed syntastic files were getting sourced twice, causing a big drag on load time:
087.736 000.744 000.609: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/ale/plugin/ale.vim
088.335 000.019 000.019: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/autoloclist.vim
088.410 000.014 000.014: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/balloons.vim
088.478 000.018 000.018: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/checker.vim
088.542 000.014 000.014: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/cursor.vim
088.606 000.014 000.014: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/highlighting.vim
088.670 000.014 000.014: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/loclist.vim
088.741 000.014 000.014: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/modemap.vim
088.803 000.014 000.014: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/notifiers.vim
088.869 000.016 000.016: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/registry.vim
088.933 000.014 000.014: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/signs.vim
089.637 000.480 000.480: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/autoload/syntastic/util.vim
617.294 000.056 000.056: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/autoloclist.vim
617.409 000.051 000.051: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/balloons.vim
617.700 000.200 000.200: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/checker.vim
617.855 000.100 000.100: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/cursor.vim
617.993 000.085 000.085: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/highlighting.vim
618.331 000.286 000.286: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/loclist.vim
618.478 000.092 000.092: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/modemap.vim
618.607 000.077 000.077: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/notifiers.vim
619.003 000.344 000.344: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/registry.vim
619.161 000.093 000.093: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic/signs.vim
620.128 531.146 529.281: sourcing /Users/me/.vim/bundle/syntastic/plugin/syntastic.vim
I'm trying to track down what causing this behavior. I commented out everything in my .vimrc file having to do with syntastic. I notice in the output above, a file called util.vim in the autoload directory gets called. I'm wondering if that might be the culprit. But I'm just not sure.
The syntastic plugin is located in ~/.vim/bundle. I have pathogen in the .vimrc like so:
"====[ Pathogen support ]======================
call pathogen#infect()
call pathogen#helptags()
