Seems to be some improvement. Are the times more what you expect for the computer and OS? Doesn’t help you, but below are the start-up times for my MacBook Air, which has 8GB of RAM.
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:23 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8122 24.3.0
- Total startup time: 1,057ms
- Initialization: 169ms
- Vault (7,621 files): 485ms
- Workspace (16 tabs, 11 deferred): 245ms
- Core plugins: 60ms
- Community plugins (7 active): 98ms
- Novel word count (v4.3.0): 32ms
- Dataview (v0.5.67): 25ms
- QuickAdd (v1.13.0): 21ms
- Templater (v2.10.0): 11ms
- Calendar (v1.5.10): 3ms
- Settings Search (v1.3.10): 1ms
- Auto Link Title (v1.5.5): 1ms