For me, on a ThinkPad 14s with an SSD on Linux: $ time node -v v18.13.0 node -v 0.05s user 0.02s system 94% cpu 0.073 total $ time ~/.asdf/installs/no

For me, on a ThinkPad 14s with an SSD on Linux: $ time node -v v18.13.0 node -v 0.05s user 0.02s system 94% cpu 0.073 total $ time ~/.asdf/installs/nodejs/18.13.0/bin/node -v v18.13.0 ~/.asdf/installs/nodejs/18.13.0/bin/node -v 0.00s user 0.00s system 94% cpu 0.004 total I've never noticed asdf being slow, so I'm surprised to see those extra ms on top when calling the shimmed node.