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Comment by majkinetor | Hacker News Reader

How about pwsh -NoLogo -NoProfile ?

    > Measure-Command { pwsh -NoProfile -NoLogo exit }
    
    Days              : 0
    Hours             : 0
    Minutes           : 0
    Seconds           : 0
    Milliseconds      : 254

BTW, Windows OS is often subject of Windows Defender and other AVs which are not present on Linux machines and their slowdown of the system is phenomenal.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Adding these flags halves the startup time:

  $ time ./pwsh -NoProfile -NoLogo <<<'' >/dev/null

  real 0m0.456s
  user 0m0.388s
  sys 0m0.040s

Much better, but I still wouldn't use this even as an interactive shell, as I open a few hundred terminal windows each day.

There's no defender (or anything similar) on that other machine. It also has an SSD. With an older HDD powershell started in about 10-15 seconds there (while cold startup time for bash was something like a second, and instantly afterwards).

I open few hundred terminals each day. There is something seriously wrong with your machines. Pwsh is not a king of speed but 10-15 is local problem. Anything more then 2 seconds is a local problem. You can maybe get to 5 with lots of modules in your profile.

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