There you go, large init files = slower loads :) I setup zsh to work like my tcsh setup to give it a try and used it for a while. Yes the init files in zsh ar

There you go, large init files = slower loads :) I setup zsh to work like my tcsh setup to give it a try and used it for a while. Yes the init files in zsh are a bit larger, but I noticed no speed difference at all. In the article it seems they are loading all kinds of things. So I would expect zsh would be slower. BTW, I am still on tcsh only due to my "muscle memory" and on history the cursor positions at the end of the line instead of the beginning.