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So, while I applaud this, I am concerned about the startup time of ps as compared to the old command prompt. Has it been improved recently?
by 6u54wuwu5w 10y ago
So, while I applaud this, I am concerned about the startup time of ps as compared to the old command prompt. Has it been improved recently?
- louhike 10y agoIt's better but it's still slower than CMD on my computers.
- algorithmsRcool 10y agoIn particular if you have left the prompt window untouched for a few hours and it has been paged out. Just pressing <tab> to complete a file name will hang for 3-6 seconds on my computer while PS wakes back up. CMD is always instantaneous. I realize that PS is doing a lot more work to match commands but sometimes simple is all that is needed.
- richard_todd 10y agoFunny, that was my first thought as well. Sometimes I start cmd.exe instead of powershell on rotating-disk machines because of the startup time. On SSDs I find the startup time is negligible.
- Aldo_MX 10y agoThat's my biggest concern, I actively avoid PS just because I can't tolerate its startup time.
- zamalek 10y agoStill slower than cmd, fast enough that I'm actively trying to unlearn the cmd muscle memory.
- JeffreySnover 10y agoMajor improvements in V5. Even more in V5.1 (which ships with WS2016). But still slower than CMD. CMD starts very quickly but then you have CMD. :-) Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]