Qwen Code lazily loads three dependencies and cuts cold-start time by 144 ms

gitmeatarru · ghdev · 2026-07-24

Qwen Code’s core runtime now lazy-loads three heavy first-use dependencies: iconv-lite, @xterm/headless, and simple-git.

The PR moves them out of the ACP child’s eager static import closure and loads them only when first needed.
It preserves synchronous encoding helpers via a compatibility entry while switching internal paths to async lazy variants.
Terminal construction is deferred until the PTY path is selected, and Git service setup remains side-effect-free until a Git operation is actually needed.
On the prototype artifact, the static closure shrank by about 890 KiB, process-to-first-session P50 improved from 1877.7 ms to 1733.3 ms, channel.initialize P50 from 896.2 ms to 831.5 ms, and peak RSS P50 from 417.0 MB to 408.1 MB.

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