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% 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.
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