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.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    4 months ago

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

    • bigboismith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

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

    • h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

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