Two-year-old patch still fixes ComfyUI's slow checkpoint loading: 225MB/s to 2.5GB/s

Solongtomegrandma · reddit · 2026-10-27

A ComfyUI user found first-run checkpoint loading painfully slow (SSD reading at just 225MB/s), and reapplying the two-year-old comfyui-faster-loading patch boosted it to 2.5GB/s—an 11x improvement. Surprised the simple fix still isn't merged upstream as of v0.37.0, they're asking others to confirm.

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