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The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At this point, boot optimizations are starting to look like innovations in F1... changes here and there to get 0.001s lap time improvements.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean consider the energy savings globally over a year. Would be interesting to see how much time is saved totally by this patch.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Probably enough to turn on an incandescent light bulb

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

For your average desktop or server installation, this isn't big news. Where it matters a lot will be in embedded systems.