> This is a quad core machine that can do billions of cycles per second. That seems unnecessary and wasteful by at least two, possibly 3 orders of magnitude. B

> This is a quad core machine that can do billions of cycles per second. That seems unnecessary and wasteful by at least two, possibly 3 orders of magnitude. Booting a system goes beyond just the CPU. Most of the time isn't spent computing things. It's spent waiting for data transfers, initializing peripherals, and so on. It's not just "tradition" to make it slow.