[WD-42]

Another performance characteristic that used to piss me off when I used brew was that at least for one program, it had to invoke brew to launch. Something about finding a path. So that's an entire ruby interpreter starting and stopping just to (in this case) run a bash script. Horribly slow.

[woodruffw]

That’s been fixed for at least a year! But yes, that used to be very slow, particularly when loading brew also meant loading every formula.