What exactly do you need 1ms instead of 14ms startup time in a shell startup? Th...

NekkoDroid · 2026-01-01T21:09:44 1767301784

> What exactly do you need 1ms instead of 14ms startup time in a shell startup?

I think as they said: when dynamically building a shell input prompt it starts to become very noticable if you have like 3 or more of these and you use the terminal a lot.

dekhn · 2026-01-01T23:38:11 1767310691

Ah, I only noticed the "shell startup" bit.

Yes, after 2-3 I agree you'd start to notice if you were really fast. I suppose at that point I'd just have Gemini rewrite the prompt-building commands in Rust (it's quite good at that) or merge all the prompt-building commands into a single one (to amortize the startup cost).

its-summertime · 2026-01-02T10:58:28 1767351508

https://starship.rs/ perhaps? I should probably start using it again honestly.

fragmede · 2026-01-02T15:41:57 1767368517

it feels good to have all that information at your fingertips but most of the time the default config is way too noisy.