parallel booting init in C - even larger speedup

Olivier Sessink lists at olivier.pk.wau.nl
Mon Nov 14 16:53:06 UTC 2005


Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On 11/14/05, Olivier Sessink <lists at olivier.pk.wau.nl> wrote:
> 
>>Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>>
>>>True, but which scripts are completely CPU bound?
>>
>>very few I think, but there may be many that are not completely
>>harddisk-I/O-bound, such as Xorg (initialising your video card), ntp
> 
> 
> But while waiting on network or video, other scripts could run, right?
> So even there parallel booting would reduce delays.

exactly

Olivier



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