Do Alfred Workflows take up CPU/system resources when they are not being used?

[football12908]

Title.

[vitor]

Workflows have to be explicitly called. If nothing is running, there’re no resources to use.

[luckman212]

Follow up question:

 

What impact does having a large number of installed workflows have? Should we disable unused or rarely used workflows for performance reasons? I have 110 workflows right now, which feels like about 5x too many 🙃 but performance seems fine.

[vitor]

@luckman212 Same answer applies. If you’re not using it, you won’t notice it. Efficiency and low resource usage are way up on the list of Alfred priorities.

[luckman212]

Thanks Vitor. That performance is one of the reasons I love Alfred. I tried Raycast when it came out because everyone was hyping about it, but I immediately noticed how much slower it felt than Alfred. I dumped it after a few hours.