Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

3recommend
0warn against
Jan 10, 2026first mention
Jun 8, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forbenchmarking zsh startupbenchmarking zsh latency

Why people recommend it

“The documentation of zshbench explains why: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench”

exqJan 11, 2026recommends

“This benchmark will show command lag among other things”

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“Check out zsh-bench⁽¹⁾ for a more authoritative approach, including first prompt lag, first command lag, input lag and exit lag.”

Caveats and dissent

No one in these comments warned against it.

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“The documentation of zshbench explains why: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench”

exqJan 11, 2026recommends

“This benchmark will show command lag among other things”

“Check out zsh-bench⁽¹⁾ for a more authoritative approach, including first prompt lag, first command lag, input lag and exit lag.”

Threads where it came up

Data: zsh-bench.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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