Comment by wpyoga

Apologies for the delay. Now I do notice a delay when using the asdf shim instead of running the binary directly. But it's nowhere near 900ms.

I'm on a T480s with i5 CPU and SSD:

  $ time node --version
  v18.13.0
  
  real 0m0.080s
  user 0m0.079s
  sys 0m0.027s

  $ time ~/.asdf/installs/nodejs/lts/bin/node --version
  v18.13.0
  
  real 0m0.009s
  user 0m0.006s
  sys 0m0.003s