On Feb 12, 2008 7:14 PM, Luke -Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:

On Tuesday 12 February 2008, David Nicol wrote:
> boot acceleration is a neglected science; no reason why a box with a 3ghz
> cpu takes any time at all to start up.

Mostly I/O bound, isn't it? Hard drives haven't got much faster for years.

okay, but why doesn't, for instance gnome manager swap everything out instead
of having to re-initialize itself when I reboot my etch? Because it would be more
trouble than its worth, that's why.