From the article: > In addition to improving peak performance as measured by the V8 benchmark suite, Crankshaft also improves the start-up time of web applicat

From the article: > In addition to improving peak performance as measured by the V8 benchmark suite, Crankshaft also improves the start-up time of web applications such as GMail. As I understand it, there is more to Crankshaft than just startup time improvement.