I am curious now... did you try your exact old, slow on wsl, configuration with a locally installed GNU/Linux?
I recently switched to zimfw and it is effectively lighter than oh-my-zsh.
Testing time zsh -c exit using most of oh-my-zsh features, a heavily festooned zsh configuration split in several files, etc versus no configuration at all returned the same result: basically zero.
Cold startup time of a terminal + zsh + oh-my-zsh is barely noticeable:
xterm around 0.2s
kitty around 0.3s
For nvim with plenty of plugins, configuration split in several files, etc the startup time is averagely under 0.2s . Cold startup time of a terminal + zsh + oh-my-zsh + nvim is between 0.3s and 0.4s
zimfw environment seems even faster.
I recently found that I can screw the configuration and reach a noticeable lag, but in very edge cases (example: executing the wrong script in the wrong startup file/sequence).
Note: tests done on very old hardware, but with SSD drives :)
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Yes I use the same config accross many machines running rhel, Debian, ubuntu, accross several cloud platforms. The only place that I really see this issue is inside wsl1. I assume that it is constrained by it's known terribly slow file io. Waiting patiently for wsl2 as there is no way for me to get a non windows main machine.
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I am curious now... did you try your exact old, slow on wsl, configuration with a locally installed GNU/Linux?
I recently switched to zimfw and it is effectively lighter than oh-my-zsh.
Testing
time zsh -c exitusing most of oh-my-zsh features, a heavily festooned zsh configuration split in several files, etc versus no configuration at all returned the same result: basically zero.Cold startup time of a terminal + zsh + oh-my-zsh is barely noticeable:
For nvim with plenty of plugins, configuration split in several files, etc the startup time is averagely under 0.2s . Cold startup time of a terminal + zsh + oh-my-zsh + nvim is between 0.3s and 0.4s
zimfw environment seems even faster.
I recently found that I can screw the configuration and reach a noticeable lag, but in very edge cases (example: executing the wrong script in the wrong startup file/sequence).
Note: tests done on very old hardware, but with SSD drives :)
Yes I use the same config accross many machines running rhel, Debian, ubuntu, accross several cloud platforms. The only place that I really see this issue is inside wsl1. I assume that it is constrained by it's known terribly slow file io. Waiting patiently for wsl2 as there is no way for me to get a non windows main machine.