
%         Registration           On faster application startup times: Cache   
%                              stuffing, seek profiling, adaptive preloading  
%                              bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)                      

This paper presents data on current            
application start-up pessimizations (on-demand 
loading), relevant numbers on real-life        
harddisk seek times in a running system        
(measured from within the kernel), and shows   
and demonstrates possible improvements, both   
from userspace and in the kernel. On a side    
note, changes to the GNU linker are discussed  
which might help. Very preliminary experiments 
have already shown a four-fold speedup in      
starting FireFox from a cold cache.            


