Make your shell 370.52% faster with this easy trick (fix nvm startup times)

zsh was slow. A shell should not take nearly a full second to start. 814 milliseconds may not sound like a lot, but it’s extremely noticeable, especially when creating new terminal tabs or sshing into a server. Time how long it takes for zsh to start: time zsh -i -c echo I was seeing upwards of 0.81 to 0.90 seconds on my MacBook (and worse on my spinning rust servers) for zsh. Blanking out my…