I am working now quite a while with the latest 12 version, but the performance I am getting is really not acceptable.
Anything I do in the program is just painfully slow. I have a really fast machine i7 with 32Gig Memory. e.g. I right click to get a context menu in editor takes between 2 and 3 seconds. Copy paste is just a pain. The editor windows seems to be refreshing all the time you do something.
Also connecting to a datbase just takes ages. I disabled the clipboard but that does not change anything.
Can you go to Preferences > User Interface / Code Assistant and (if it is enabled) disable the "Include columns from DML statement" option, and try again?
As I said in one of the other performance related forum topics: I agree with above members, performance of PL/SQL Developer has been degrading over the years and it would be on of my most favoured improvements if the developer could improve this.
That said, some things I did that improved responsiveness of PL/SQL Developer: 1) disabled the clipboard history. (preferences - editor - clipboard) 2) made sure nls_sort from backend and client matched(registry - Oracle home)
Certainty of death, small chance of succes, What are we waiting for... (Gimly)