Steam now launches in 5.23s, beating Epic's 5.47s — and vLLM gets roasted for slow startup
AlpinDale · x · 2026-10-16
Valve shipped a Steam update cutting startup time to 5.23 seconds in user tests, beating Epic's "vibe-coded" launcher at 5.47s, plus new Big Picture features, a bouncing-logo screensaver, Linux fixes and more. AlpinDale quipped: when does vLLM join the Startup Time Wars — a jab at the inference framework's notoriously slow startup.
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