I use QtCreator whenever I can although its performance is not great sometimes. I have a feeling situation gets worse with large source files, to put a number here I'll say over 1000 lines. It seems disabling a couple of Helper plugins makes it take less CPU.
Is there a way to know CPU usage by each plugin? Which plugins are the most CPU hungry?
Now I'm going with the following and CPU usage seems good (almost close to 1% all the time).
