Extension causes high cpu load

• Issue Type: Performance
• Extension Name: vscode-colorize
• Extension Version: 0.8.13
• OS Version: Darwin x64 15.6.0
• VSCode version: 1.38.1

⚠️ Make sure to attach this file from your home-directory: ⚠️/Users/tipografia/kamikillerto.vscode-colorize-unresponsive.cpuprofile.txt

Find more details here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Explain:-extension-causes-high-cpu-load

[KamiKillertO]

Thanks @mahdizakizadeh for the file, I’ll have a look. I’m well aware of the performance issues, I’m working on it.

However there’s already ways to reduce/fix them. Colorize have a lots of settings with default values that target a wide range of files/languages. By changing those settings you can reduce the amount of work done by colorize everytimes you open a project or a file.

For exemple by default colorize generate background colors for every colors in the opened files, by setting colorize.colorize_only_visible_beta to true, colorize will only generate background for the visible part of the file(this setting can have huge impact when working on large files).

By default colorize generate background for SASS,LESS,CSS,STYLUS variables, but this also have some performance impact because the extension need to scan all files in a project in order to find the variables declarations. The setting colorize.colorized_variables let you define a list of variables that will be colorized. If you only use SASS change this setting to colorize.colorized_variables: ["SASS"] that way the extension will only search SASS variables.

All settings are listed here

[dmcreativestudios]

@KamiKillertO just want to say thanks for all your hard work