What is the "spec" step under "Lazy profile"?

[cgkantidis]

I'm using neovim v0.11.4 at work, and sometimes neovim takes about a minute to open.
Not to open a file, but to start the application.

I've experimented with my lua config, and found that if I completely disable Lazy, the delay goes away.

I re-enabled Lazy, and looked at the Lazy profile.
I see that the delay is caused by a "spec" step under lazy.nvim.
But I can't find anywhere what this step is supposed to do.

I'm suspecting that it's a network issue, but I'd like some insights into this step.

The output of Lazy profile follows:

  Startuptime: 173.91ms

  Based on the actual CPU time of the Neovim process till UIEnter.
  This is more accurate than `nvim --startuptime`.
    LazyStart 24.58ms
    LazyDone  141.16ms (+116.57ms)
    UIEnter   173.91ms (+32.75ms)

  Profile

  You can press <C-s> to change sorting between chronological order & time taken.
  Press <C-f> to filter profiling entries that took more time than a given threshold

    ●   lazy.nvim 47187.56ms
      ➜  module 9.89ms
      ➜  config 0.99ms
      ➜  spec 47171.08ms
        ★  pkg 0.35ms
        ★  resolve plugins 0.8ms
      ➜  state 0.95ms
      ➜  install 0.12ms
      ➜  handlers 0.62ms