alt Hacker NewsBringing down my ZSH load times from ~3.1s to ~230ms
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How did I know it was going to be `nvm` before I clicked?
Use mise and you will be in the micro-seconds region.
https://arunmozhi.in/2024/09/06/replacing-pyenv-nvm-direnv-w...
Having gone through the same experience, I suggest dropping fnm as well; I don’t recall what exactly causes it, but it will eventually slow down too.
I’ve been using mise [1] to manage node versions since with zero issues.
Adopting https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-snap was probably the best decision I've made around zsh in the last five years.
My mini-story: I'd switched to zimfw which does a ton of caching, precompiling. It benches very well versus other zsh frameworks. But something was still taking almost a second for me, every time. https://github.com/zimfw/zimfw
zprof helped me and the LLM profile and we found it was one plugin, which wasn't really intended specifically for zim. Fixed that! https://github.com/lipov3cz3k/zsh-uv/issues/2
Man it feels so good having shells just open so lightning fast.
Huh, I just ran the same timing command for my fish shell (with starship prompt) and got 168ms.
What all is happening in the Zsh profile?