romkatv/zsh-bench

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Benchmark for interactive Zsh

13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2021-10-10 · latest 2026-06-08

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…is that the benchmark method they use is flawed. The documentation of zshbench explains why: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench Even with a low grade laptop, my zsh config grants me a sub 5ms prompt and a sub 1ms input lag, and that's…
comment by idoubtit · 2026-06-08 · in Life is too short for a slow terminal
…benchmark will show command lag among other things, which is very noticeable on a slower computer. https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench I use https://github.com/romkatv/zsh4humans . I installed it once, took an hour or two to tweak it to…
comment by exq · 2026-01-11 · in Oh My Zsh adds bloat
…authoritative approach, including first prompt lag, first command lag, input lag and exit lag. ⁽¹⁾ https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench
comment by eddyg · 2026-01-10 · in Oh My Zsh adds bloat
…-ic exit` isn't really meaningful metric for measuring the performance of an interactive shell. See https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#how-not-to-benchmark for details.
comment by maple3142 · 2026-01-10 · in Oh My Zsh adds bloat
https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench?tab=readme-ov-file#prom...
comment by eddyg · 2025-09-23 · in Zoxide: A Better CD Command
That benchmark command isn’t great: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#how-not-to-benchmark
comment by wrboyce · 2024-01-23 · in Oh My Zsh
Someone's made a benchmarking system for zsh: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#premade-configs Of course, their config is the best according to the benchmark (and ohmyzsh is the slowest option), but DIY configs are also covered,…
comment by alright2565 · 2024-01-23 · in Oh My Zsh
…after many users, to vanilla zsh with https://starship.rs , mainly due to the loading speed (used https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench to measure the speed). Still wanting to try out fish and hopefully soon!
comment by yla92 · 2024-01-23 · in Oh My Zsh
…romkatv did a great write-up and benchmark within the context of zsh[0]. It's a great read. [0] https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#how-not-to-benchmark
comment by figmert · 2024-01-16 · in Faster shell startup with shell switching
Yeah, that blog post is doing exactly what https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#how-not-to-benchmark says not to do...
comment by eddyg · 2022-03-20 · in Fish 3.4.0
…lag”, “time to first prompt”, “command lag”, etc. like is measured with the excellent zsh-bench ( https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#what-it-measures )
comment by eddyg · 2022-03-20 · in Fish 3.4.0