Notes on how I fixed the terrible Homestead performance on Mac OS X.
Shared folders seem to be an issue. Do this in homestead.rb (mine was located in ~/.composer/vendor/laravel/homestead/scripts/):
# Register All Of The Configured Shared Folders
# (Comment the lines following, and insert this:)
settings["folders"].each do |folder|
config.vm.synced_folder folder["map"], folder["to"],
id: folder["map"],
:nfs => true,