(author of libtree): I believe that downloading, compiling and running libtree is faster than the startup overhead of pax-utils lddtree ;) maybe C is the better scripting language?

    $ alias latest_libtree='curl -Lfs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haampie/libtree/master/libtree.c | cc -o /tmp/libtree -x c - -std=c99 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64; /tmp/libtree'

    $ time latest_libtree /usr/bin/vim

    real 0m0.179s
    user 0m0.119s
    sys 0m0.019s
    /usr/bin/vim 
    ├── libpython3.11.so.1.0 [ld.so.conf]
    │   ├── libexpat.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
    │   └── libz.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
    ├── libgpm.so.2 [ld.so.conf]
    ├── libacl.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
    ├── libsodium.so.23 [ld.so.conf]
    ├── libselinux.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
    │   └── libpcre2-8.so.0 [ld.so.conf]
    └── libtinfo.so.6 [ld.so.conf]