That was one of the notional reasons, but I (and others) haven't noticed much of a speedup. If anything, it's slightly slower in my experience (though this obv

That was one of the notional reasons, but I (and others) haven't noticed much of a speedup. If anything, it's slightly slower in my experience (though this obviously depends upon the specific configuration). It was also not unique in parallelising startup tasks. Even sysvinit can be configured to do that with insserv+startpar.