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Having showtodos 2.8.0.1 installed, I experienced noticeable lags while editing ~3000 line file. A snapshot shows that out of ~3600ms total spent in AWT, ~1000ms are spent in 38 invocations of HighlightTodos.getHighlights(). Improving performance of the todo highlighting could therefore considerable improve overall performance.