For faster Vacuum run performance,

(1) avoid over-partitioned directories

(2) avoid concurrent runs (during vacuum command run)

(3) avoid enabling S3 versioning (As delta lake itself maintains the history)

(4) run periodic “optimize” command, 

(5) enable autoCompaction/autoOptimize on the delta table

(6) use latest/higher DBR with auto-scaling cluster (for faster listing) with compute optimized instance types.

Also, currently the default checkpointInterval is 100, but if you are on a lower DBR it would be 10, you can alter this property to 100 for checkpoint files to be created every 100 commits.

- Since Vacuum is compute intensive , use compute optimized instance types like C5 series instances (for AWS)