title: vim takes a very long time to start up
body: <p>I'm experiencing a very sluggish startup time with vim as well as other unrelated programs ever since I logged out and logged back in the last time. Following is the startuptime log for vim:</p>
  <pre><code>&gt; times in msec  clock   self+sourced   self:  sourced script  clock  
  &gt; elapsed:              other lines
  &gt; 
  &gt; 000.005  000.005: --- VIM STARTING ---
  &gt; 000.073  000.068: Allocated generic buffers
  &gt; 000.168  000.095: locale set
  &gt; 000.180  000.012: GUI prepared
  &gt; 000.181  000.001: clipboard setup
  &gt; 000.188  000.007: window checked
  &gt; 000.621  000.433: inits 1
  &gt; 000.626  000.005: parsing arguments
  &gt; 000.627  000.001: expanding arguments
  &gt; 000.637  000.010: shell init
  &gt; 000.909  000.272: Termcap init
  &gt; 000.942  000.033: inits 2
  &gt; 001.031  000.089: init highlight
  &gt; 023.418  000.234  000.234: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syncolor.vim
  &gt; 023.543  001.811  001.577: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/synload.vim
  &gt; 044.397  015.231  015.231: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/filetype.vim
  &gt; 044.449  025.111  008.069: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/latest/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syntax.vim
  &gt; 052.532  000.199  000.199: sourcing /grid/common/pkgsData/vim-v7.3/Linux/RHEL4.0-2007-x86_64/share/vim/vim73/syntax/nosyntax.vim
  &gt; 059.858  000.175  000.175: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syncolor.vim
  &gt; 059.966  003.842  003.667: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/synload.vim
  &gt; 060.002  010.259  006.218: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syntax.vim
  &gt; 069.085  000.178  000.178: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syncolor.vim
  &gt; 072.326  000.173  000.173: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syncolor.vim
  &gt; 076.317  000.175  000.175: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/syntax/syncolor.vim
  &gt; 076.477  013.311  012.785: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/colors/desert.vim
  &gt; 079.768  000.019  000.019: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/filetype.vim
  &gt; 080.322  065.921  017.221: sourcing $HOME/.vimrc
  &gt; 080.330  013.378: sourcing vimrc file(s)
  &gt; 106.526  000.376  000.376: sourcing /home/haitham/.vim/plugin/genutils.vim
  &gt; 111.139  001.435  001.435: sourcing /home/haitham/.vim/plugin/multiselect.vim
  &gt; 113.534  000.147  000.147: sourcing /home/haitham/.vim/plugin/omap-param.vim
  &gt; 119.245  000.073  000.073: sourcing /home/haitham/.vim/plugin/qfixtoggle.vim
  &gt; 122.821  000.696  000.696: sourcing /home/haitham/.vim/plugin/surround.vim
  &gt; 172.247  000.098  000.098: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim
  &gt; 176.387  000.252  000.252: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/gzip.vim
  &gt; 179.876  000.183  000.183: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/matchparen.vim
  &gt; 182.748  000.620  000.620: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
  &gt; 186.171  000.051  000.051: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/rrhelper.vim
  &gt; 189.739  000.046  000.046: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/spellfile.vim
  &gt; 193.406  000.195  000.195: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/tarPlugin.vim
  &gt; 199.206  000.060  000.060: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/tohtml.vim
  &gt; 202.299  000.152  000.152: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
  &gt; 205.345  000.147  000.147: sourcing /grid/common/pkgs/vim/v7.3/share/vim/vim73/plugin/zipPlugin.vim
  &gt; 205.394  120.533: loading plugins
  &gt; 12343.581  12138.187: inits 3
  &gt; 12349.592  006.011: reading viminfo
  &gt; 18421.239  6071.647: setup clipboard
  &gt; 18421.264  000.025: setting raw mode
  &gt; 18421.270  000.006: start termcap
  &gt; 18421.293  000.023: clearing screen
  &gt; 18421.504  000.211: opening buffers
  &gt; 18421.564  000.060: BufEnter autocommands
  &gt; 18421.566  000.002: editing files in windows
  &gt; 18425.833  004.267: VimEnter autocommands
  &gt; 18425.835  000.002: before starting main loop
  &gt; 18426.587  000.752: first screen update
  &gt; 18428.334  001.747: --- VIM STARTED ---
  </code></pre>
  <p>Apparently the biggest components are &quot;inits 3&quot; and &quot;setup clipboard&quot;.</p>
  <p>Any clues what to do about it?</p>