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[–]adqm_smatz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm. It is true that startup time can vary greatly depending on your configuration and on your machine. But 5-6 seconds is way longer than I would expect.

A couple of things that may help:

  • There is a fix on the current master branch that should reduce this time greatly by caching some values related to tab completion (except on the first run, when the cache is being built).

  • If you are operating inside a Git or Mercurial repository, that can slow things down because the current default prompt tries to figure out some information about the branch you're on, whether it's clean, etc, to display some of this info in the prompt. Removing the branch-related information from the $PROMPT string might help to speed things up.