Startup performance
Illustrator has always been sluggish on startup, but 27 seconds on a recent SSD MBP is totally unacceptable IMO.
Thoughts anyone?
By comparison PS is ready to go in 7sec.
Standard install CC 2018 / Il 22 on MacOS 10.13.1

Our typical launch numbers on a SSD MBP is around 6-7 seconds hence we would like to understand more about the issue and problem.
Please get in touch with us at sharewithai@adobe.com or any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Since this is not a generic issue that we can reproduce at our end, we will need someone to look into your machine to figure out what is going on here.
Warm Regards,
Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator
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Nick commented
Hi Ashutosh, Thanks for coming back, I have only just been notified of this. I'm doing pre-release work with Ps and Lr and see no performance issues (making allowances for a laptop). On the other hand Il has always been a very slow-launching app for me. The machine is currently running a lot of apps and it takes 40 sec for the Illustrator banner to appear.
I always maintain 20-50% of the SSD as free space