I'd consider startup time the least important metric for measuring speed of a text editor - as long as it's not ridiculous. Important speed metrics for me are:

I'd consider startup time the least important metric for measuring speed of a text editor - as long as it's not ridiculous. Important speed metrics for me are: Switching between buffers Scrolling up/down a page (vim used to be terrible for me before i switched terminals to Kitty) Substitutions Search