# Gulp watch taking way too long

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/gulp-watch-taking-way-too-long/6124
**Category:** sage
**Tags:** gulp
**Created:** 2016-03-05T20:59:29Z
**Posts:** 12
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## Post 9 by @40Q — 2016-05-07T00:28:46Z

I also suffered this slowness on gulp and found out it was cssnano the big responsible of it. Although I know it’s deprecated, I switched again to minify-css and difference was enormous, from 9s to 1.8s when compiling styles. That’s a big change if working on small changes.

Browsing for a solution to this problem I found this benchmark study: [http://goalsmashers.github.io/css-minification-benchmark/](http://goalsmashers.github.io/css-minification-benchmark/)

Is there any reason to change from gulp-cssnano in favour of gulp-clean-css, which is recommended by gulp-minify-css npm repo?

Using gulp-cssnano is killing my workflow. :disappointed:

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