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Boot any modern OS and you’ll have megabytes if not tens of megabytes of these strings, and spend a small but significant amount of CPU time looking them up. Th
by mikeash 7y ago
Boot any modern OS and you’ll have megabytes if not tens of megabytes of these strings, and spend a small but significant amount of CPU time looking them up. This may not matter on your Ryzen desktop with 97 cores and 318GB of RAM, but it’s substantial on a smartphone.
- WhitneyLand 7y agoWell, that seems to be an unfounded assumption that I'm considering only powerful machines, especially since possible challenges on small devices were mentioned in the OP. In fact, I done a fair amount of ARM coding so I understand what you are trying to say. Nevertheless, your comment seems to point out smartphones may be less powerful, but sheds no light on what the delta might be for boot performance or how you can be confident it's say, more than a few hundred milliseconds. Maybe it is, I haven't isolated and investigated that single difference enough to form a reasonable guess. Have you?