[moogly]

    C:\dev> (Measure-Command { pwsh -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds
    1394.1826
    C:\dev> (Measure-Command { pwsh -noprofile -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds
    247.4816

Non-cold start on a 14-core Skylake-X. Drives me nuts.

[animesh]

On an i7-8700 w Kingston NVMe:

    PS C:\Users\me> (Measure-Command { pwsh -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds
    265.3785

    PS C:\Users\me> (Measure-Command { powershell -noprofile -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds
    119.481

[DeathArrow]

On mine:

(Measure-Command { powershell(Measure-Command { powershell -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds 768.5885

(Measure-Command { powershell -noprofile -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds 113.3157

[kaba0]

Why isn’t there a constantly running daemon, making the actual binary run as a shell be a tiny executable doing some network calls only?

[goodguyamerikan]

There was a discussion around that but that was scuttled because aot was com inng up

[pjmlp]

If you are restarting your PowerShell session all the time, you must be really busy. /s