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dekhnyesterday at 8:38 PM1 replyview on HN

What exactly do you need 1ms instead of 14ms startup time in a shell startup? The difference is barely perceptible.

Most of the time starting up is time spent seartching the filesystem for thousands of packages.


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NekkoDroidyesterday at 9:09 PM

> What exactly do you need 1ms instead of 14ms startup time in a shell startup?

I think as they said: when dynamically building a shell input prompt it starts to become very noticable if you have like 3 or more of these and you use the terminal a lot.

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