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I am using ALE plugin with clangtidy linter to lint my C code and whenever I save my file and this linter gets activated it takes around 3-4 seconds for it to check for errors. File in question is around 1000 lines long and I am using a compilation database (compile_commands.json file). Is this the default behaviour of clangtidy? Is it just slow? Or what could be the problem?

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks

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    Ale should be asynchronous... does the 3-4 second delay prevent you from using vim? If not, then I’d say this is jusg clangtidy not scaling to 1000 lines well (on a side note: modularize!).
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Jul 25, 2019 at 3:56
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    I will try to modularize, good tip, as for the linter it is indeed just clandtidy not scaling up well or so it seems. Thanks for your feedback
    – Your move creep
    Jul 25, 2019 at 18:44

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Since I ran this linter as an external command and it gave me the same delay to go through the file, I assume it is just really slow. So that's a shame...

P.S If you got any solutions on how to fight this delay in large files please feel free to comment below. Thanks

Edit: I now use ccls linter, it is fast (at the cost of big cache for every project, but it is worth it imo)

Edit2: To make clang-tidy faster disable clang-analyzer-* checks, to do this in ALE put this line into your .vimrc:

let g:ale_c_clangtidy_checks = ['-*', 'cppcoreguidelines-*']

you can change cppcoreguidelines with any other checks available in clang-tidy

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