droid CLI startup is very slow (~2s) compared to other CLI AI agents

[zipeilee]

droid takes ~1.8-2.2s just to show --help. Other CLI AI agents (claude code, opencode, codex-cli) all start in <100ms.

Measured on my machine:

droid --help    ~1.8-2.2s
droid --version ~0.8s

Environment:

• droid 0.89.0 (installed via Homebrew)
• MacBook Air, Apple M4, 16GB RAM
• macOS 15.7.4

This is purely a software startup issue — the 108MB Bun-compiled binary needs to cold-start the JavaScriptCore VM and parse the entire JS bundle on every invocation, even for --help.

[zwen64657]

Slow startup? Since I'm using a third-party model integration, I directly disabled cloud sync in the settings. Additionally, I enabled the startup animation to create a smoother transition, which feels more comfortable.

[zipeilee]

Already tried with cloudSessionSync: false, no improvement:

cloudSessionSync: true  → ~1.9s, 1.8s, 1.8s
cloudSessionSync: false → ~1.9s, 1.7s, 1.7s

The ~1.7-2s overhead is from the Bun binary cold start (108MB, JSC VM init + JS bundle parse), not from network sync. Even droid --help takes this long.