Startup Time longer then oh-my-zsh

[wkocmann]

Describe the bug

Right now startup time is about 3 times as long as oh-my-zsh.

I am using a very minimalist setup with the following plugins

1 🔌 conda-zsh-completion 2 🔌 zsh-autosuggestions 3 🔌 supercharge 4 🔌 vim 5 🔌 nvm 6 🔌 zap-prompt 7 🔌 fzf 8 🔌 zsh-syntax-highlighting

and startup takes longer then oh-my-zsh.

Steps to reproduce

Start a new window in tmux or any other shell.

Tested on Linux (x84 and ARM) and Mac (M2)

Expected behavior

Faster Start Ups

Screenshots and recordings

No response

OS / Linux distribution

macOS 13.5.2, EndeavourOS Linux x86_64, Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm

Zsh version

5.9

Zap version

release-v1/1.2.1

Terminal emulator

Alacritty

If using WSL on Windows, which version of WSL

None

Additional context

No response

[trekie86]

I'd recommend measuring what is taking the longest via https://stevenvanbael.com/profiling-zsh-startup

For me, it was nvm by a very long shot. Currently researching if there are other options to lazy load nvm since that is the biggest driver.

[trekie86]

This plugin seems to be eliminating my pain point and only paying the penalty once when I need to use nvm vs every startup: https://github.com/undg/zsh-nvm-lazy-load

[ChristianChiarulli]

@trekie86 have you tried fnm?

[ChristianChiarulli]

start up time can be a pretty deceptive metric, not sure that this is the case here but I just want to make sure we keep that in mind. Are you able to narrow down which if any plugin may be causing the startup to take significantly longer?

[wkocmann]

This plugin seems to be eliminating my pain point and only paying the penalty once when I need to use nvm vs every startup: https://github.com/undg/zsh-nvm-lazy-load

Thank you, that did the trick. Now it is blazingly fast

[trekie86]

@trekie86 have you tried fnm?

I have not tried fnm, I'll give it a shot and see if that performs better than nvm...I suspect it will.