microsoft / microsoft/vscode-docs
Add Performance Topic
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Description
Most of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues is super helpful user facing than contributor content. It would be great to bring to the website docs to help more users that experience performance issues.
The wiki does not show up for common queries: https://www.google.com/search?q=vs+code+high+CPU, https://www.google.com/search?q=vs+code+slow .
Content ideas:
- Flow chart for debugging performance
- Performance tips (do we have any?)
- Step by step slow startup debugging (
workbench.action.showRuntimeExtensions) - Step by step extension bisect to help users identify and disable slow extensions
- Point to performance reporting if extensions are not the culprit
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