Hi AndyW1P! Thank you for the reply!

It's not so much that I was expecting faster times, but I didn't expect it to be so slow. Two places where I've used op recently that highlight the issue:

First, I've been playing around with https://ansible.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to setup a new server. I figured I'd put all the secrets, such as the sudo password, in 1Password and then use the https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/onepassword_lookup.html lookup to set playbook variables.

It turns out this lookup is extremely slow. It can slow down running playbooks by ~10x! A very simple playbook takes ~13s with the onepassword lookup. Switching it out to https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vault_guide/index.html, Ansible's own secret manager, the same playbook runs in ~1s.

The onepassword lookup uses op under the hood. Apparently it runs it at least once for each task, due partially to Ansible’s lazy variable evaluation, so it adds up quickly.

Second, I use https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ to backup some Linux servers to https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage. Again, I wanted to put all the secrets into 1Password, so I wrote this wrapper script:

```

!/bin/sh

shellcheck disable=SC2155

RESTIC_BUCKET="$(op read "op://$OP_ITEM/bucket")"
RESTIC_PATH="$(op read "op://$OP_ITEM/path")"
export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="b2:$RESTIC_BUCKET:/$RESTIC_PATH"
export RESTIC_PASSWORD="$(op read "op://$OP_ITEM/password")"

export B2_ACCOUNT_ID="$(op read "op://$OP_ITEM/keyId")"
export B2_ACCOUNT_KEY="$(op read "op://$OP_ITEM/applicationKey")"

exec "$@"
```

Now I can run restic-wrapper restic snapshots and it all "just works". But, again, I noticed this running very slowly. It takes 4 to 5 seconds just to get to the exec line, because there are five invocations of op.

But, yes, both of these cases where unexpected slow, ultimately due to op taking ~700ms per invocation.