To the larger issue of "my shell is slow", it's very helpful to profile it. I keep some standard startup profiling code[1] in my .zshrc that I enable when I ne

To the larger issue of "my shell is slow", it's very helpful to profile it. I keep some standard startup profiling code[1] in my .zshrc that I enable when I need to profile things. In my experience, this virtually always identifies a very specific culprit for performance problems. [1] https://github.com/jwhitley/zshrc/blob/master/.zshrc#L18 https://github.com/jwhitley/zshrc/blob/master/.zshrc#L18 and https://github.com/jwhitley/zshrc/blob/master/.zshrc#L151 https://github.com/jwhitley/zshrc/blob/master/.zshrc#L151