The preferences are read via calls to the macOS command line "defaults" command, so a process is spawned for each variable that is read. This could be improved by directly reading & parsing the plists or, at the very least, grabbing all variables with a single call to "defaults."

On Nov 12, 2019, at 9:10 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:21:06 +0100
From: iftah gabbai <ift.gab@gmail.com>
To: Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu>
Cc: Christof Ressi <christof.ressi@gmx.at>, Pd-List
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Subject: Re: [PD] lag when starting sub-process
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just a short followup - on mac "-noprefs" makes a huge difference!

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