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fix: Speed up startup time from 5s -> 10ms (500x faster)#557

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@frol frol commented Feb 9, 2026

Unblock #408, see #408 (comment)

clap-rs/clap#6225 was not accepted to the upstream, so I forked clap into a drop-in replacement fast_clap with the fix that allows us to make the CLI to run instantaneously.

On my MacBook M1 Pro the release CLI start time dropped from 5 seconds to 10 milliseconds. There are no side effects, so it is just faster and no downsides.

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frol commented Feb 9, 2026

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Pull request overview

This PR aims to reduce CLI startup time by replacing the clap dependency with a fork (fast_clap) that includes an upstream-unaccepted performance fix.

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  • Replace clap with fast_clap in Cargo.toml.
  • Update Cargo.lock to remove clap/clap_derive and add fast_clap/fast_clap_derive.

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Cargo.toml Swaps the CLI argument parsing dependency from clap to fast_clap.
Cargo.lock Regenerates the lockfile to reflect the new fast_clap dependency graph.

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@r-near r-near merged commit 4cdf2bd into main Feb 9, 2026
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@race-of-sloths 13 for all the clap work

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