Fixing Zend Studio 8 Performance (typing lag) Issue

Question

Zend Studio 8 has performance problems with large php source files (around 3,000 lines of code) causing MAJOR typing lag. There has been a patch developed but apparently they haven't rolled it out yet as nothing happens when I to go Help > Check for Updates.

Is there any way I can manually update the IDE so I don't have to wait for Zend?

Answer 1

Zend Studio has a lot of performance issues because it is based on Eclipse / PDT and Eclipse often exhibits performance problems.

You might want to consider Netbeans which has solid PHP support and less performance issues.

Answer 2

Zend Finally released a beta fix for the issue. Steps to resolve the problem are as follows:

1. In Zend navigate to Help > Install new software

2. Update site: http://beta.zend.com/studio/8.0.1/update

3. Check all items in the features list

4. Uncheck the "update all repositories" checkbox and follow the wizard