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by AdieuToLogic 380 days ago
> Is .14s noticeable?

Unless the system is under memory pressure, most shell initialization will read from in-memory OS file caches and not be noticeable as you note.

Where significant delays are often seen is when a seemingly innocuous extension uses network-based or some other heavy file system I/O commands (such as a "find $HOME -type f" type of thing).

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Even under memory pressure, it's not a ton of SSD IO time (e.g., mine is 5 MB).