WE is painfully slow

I believe WorldEdit, by nature, is painfully slow. Does anyone know any tricks to speed it up? I've tried running it without background apps and it really doesn't have any effect. Most of my frustrations are with terrain editing.

Does anyone know how to speed up WorldEdit? Note my computer, aside from its processor (500Mhz P3) should be more then enough to handle WorldEdit. Additionally, WorldEdit got worse when I changed my operating system over to Windows XP. I have another computer that I sometimes use at work which runs WorldEdit with the NoCD crack and its a little bit faster, but the gap has gotten a lot smaller now that the map has a lot more detail to it.

--general "nihilist" mx

Yea its really annoying... i cant listen to music while i edit! (except the editors music then...)

Actually, that's one of the weird parts. On either computer, I can run WorldEdit and other programs at the same time without anymore slowdown in WorldEdit (or the change is trivial), which leads me to believe that its more of an issue with WorldEdit and not Windows memory management.

--general "nihilist" mx

It is slow to start, slow to open slow to save, itäs slow to change values and so on. WE WANT STAREDIT!! (with the Worldedit functions ofcourse)

Haha that can't be possible cause then it wouldn't be Staredit it would be... Worldedit. Besides, Worldedit is 3D and StarEdit is not.

worldedit only gets slow for me when im working on a bigass map (192x192 or something) and i get to the latter half of the terrain editting. i guess it's just doing a lot of calculations ... i don't know. other than that it runs perfectly fine on my computer.

i have a amd athlon 1900+ w/512 Mb ram, and a radeon 8500le (128Mb) video card.

Obviously, try disabling a few things. Click 'view' and disable shadows, lighting, and water. Those 3 alone will save a lot of space. Also, if RAM is an issue, restart world edit occasionally to clear it's cache. Hope that helps.