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Nope. I've tested it (like many other people). My 2011 Macbook air boots 4 seconds faster into Windows 8 than Windows 7.
by Locke1689 14y ago
Nope. I've tested it (like many other people). My 2011 Macbook air boots 4 seconds faster into Windows 8 than Windows 7.
- sirclueless 14y agoFresh installations of each? Because my boot tends to slow down over time, and by considerably more than 4 seconds.
- Locke1689 14y agoRTM for months.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoMy boot on my HP EliteBook (HD, no SSD) got much slower under Windows 8 RTM (~1 minute), but this was the IT version of Win8, which I guess has lots of crud so my boot is not going to be as fast as consumer (had the same problem with Win7).
- Locke1689 14y agoRight, this is the RTM Win 8 Pro, not IT enterprise
- stcredzero 14y agoThey're probably booting into the desktop even though a few things are still getting initialized.
- Locke1689 14y agoMy numbers are boot to lock.
- CamperBob2 14y agoWhat possible connection do you anticipate might exist between bootup time and performance during use?
- gareim 14y agoKernel states are saved or something, leading to faster bootup times. It's sort of like the hibernate option we've had for so long, but just on a smaller scale. Is it a good idea? Could be and probably is. But I'm paranoid that a clean restart is better, so it bothers me.
- mtgx 14y agoWow. A full 4 seconds? How exactly is that perceivable to anyone without having a timer nearby? Besides, for the faster booting they used another trick, replacing the "true Shutdown" with Hibernate, which makes waking from Hibernate faster than waking from a true shutdown.
- Variance 14y agoYour sarcasm aside, 4 seconds can be very perceivable when you can already do a full cold boot in Win 7 in just 15-20 seconds with a good SSD.
- Locke1689 14y agoFirst, no, 4 seconds is very noticeable, as my boot time in Win7 is 18 seconds. That's 22%, about 1/4 faster. Second, what the hell is a "trick?" It achieves basically the same result, but faster. That's called performance optimization. I once doubled a hot area of compiler performance by doing aggressive inlining and removing some tuple allocation for closure conversion. It couldn't be performed in every possible situation, obviously, but the 99% case had a 100% performance improvement. But I shouldn't have bothered because that was all a "trick", right? A brief look at your comment history says you only comment on political stories, so I don't know if you're a developer or one who has worked in performance optimization, but let me give you a little advice -- it's all tricks. It's all shuffling around your I/O patterns to avoid cache misses and reducing allocation to lower memory pressure and all that other crap. If you increase performance by caching the kernel on disk, which has the same impact for 99% of people as doing a cold boot, that's a performance optimization, not a "trick."