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For reference, I'm using El Capitan version 10.11.3 running on a bottom-of-the-line 2012 27" iMac (2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512 MB GPU, & 1 TB conventional hard drive).

 

Sometimes AP takes up to 20 seconds or so to launch; other times only 3-6 seconds. As I understand it, this depends in large part on how much OS X has kept in inactive memory from the last use of AP. I don't have Photoshop installed on my iMac but an old 9.x version of Photoshop Elements never takes less than about 15 seconds to launch, most of it devoted to loading plugins, validating fonts, & so on.

 

For both apps this is the time to launch to an empty workspace, not opening a document when the app isn't already running. Once running, AP takes much less time to open a native .afphoto or .afdesign document than PSE does a native .psd document of similar size & complexity. The same is true for a tif, jpeg, gif or any other document not "native" to either app.

All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7
Affinity Photo 
1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7

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Before it took 25 sec for AP to startup on iMac 5K 4GHz i7 16GB. Then disabled Unknown Plugins and removed path /Application from Plugin Search Folders (just left path to a specific plugins folder). Now it starts up in 3 sec. Attaching screenshot of the Plugins Preferences. 

Screen Shot 2019-07-18 at 0.13.18.png

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