I'm a big fan of PyCharm, but I have run into an issue:
It hangs unexpectedly, and this happens often. Overall, its a little bit slow for my taste and I would love some tips on how to increase the performance of the IDE
Has anyone run into these issues before and if so, how did these get resolved?
My configuration: Mac OSX Lion running on MacBook Pro (mid 2010) with 8GB RAM
Every performance problem with PyCharm is unique; a solution that helps one person will not work for another. Therefore, the only proper way to fix your specific performance problem is by capturing the CPU profiler snapshot as described in this document and sending it to the PyCharm support team, either by submitting a ticket or directly into the issue tracker.
After the CPU snapshot is analyzed, the PyCharm team will work on a fix and release a new version which will (hopefully) not be affected by this specific performance problem. The team may also suggest you some configuration changes or workaround to remedy the problem based on the analysis of the provided data.
All the other "solutions" (like enabling Power Save mode and changing the highlighting level) will hide the real problems that should be fixed.