Code completion takes seconds using Control+Space

[ghost]

Using Control+Space for Content Assist takes up to 5 seconds. I have tested this both in eclipse 4.5.2 and 3.8.1. Is there any way this delay could be improved? There are no issues with automatic code completion (After "." is pressed).

[derekcicerone-zz]

Sorry, I'm not sure there is much I can do to fix this from the Eclipse side - that functionality comes entirely from the TypeScript team. One thing that might be worth checking is the version of Nodejs installed to ensure its the latest (newer versions tend to have better performance).

[ghost]

I upgraded from 4.3.1 to 5.8.0 - seems to take about half as long as it did for code completion. Not optimal, but a lot better. Thanks :-)

[mttcr]

Hello, just for info, why is the autocompletion almost immediate in Visual Studio Code ? How does the autocompletion works with eclipse-typescript ? Do you use the typescriptServices, or a tsserver running in background (microsoft/TypeScript#2041) ?

[derekcicerone-zz]

Hmm, that's weird. The Eclipse plugin is just using the TypeScript language services which are running via a custom server (not tsserver - it came out well after this project was established). Perhaps there are some unnecessary disk operations or something similar? Perhaps someone would be interested in profiling the bad performance?