5 ms·

...for a 6 year old PC.

• Tuna-Fish 17y ago
  On my 5-year old pc, ff 3.5 boots from cold cache in ~4 seconds. During those 4 seconds, the machine is capable of: Executing more than 8 billion instructions. Reading sequentially trough more than 20 gigabytes of memory. Reading more than 240 megabytes from disk. If pretty much anything takes more than 10 seconds to load on any hardware even approaching modern, it means it was written badly.
  • barrkel 17y ago
    On a machine that's not constantly being defragged, temporary files will be spread out all over the place. No way can you read 240 MB of fragmented files in 4 seconds after a cold boot. Simply not possible on consumer-level magnetic spindle media.
    • derefr 17y ago
      > On a machine that's not constantly being defragged Windows does "constantly defrag" in the background.
      • derefr 17y ago
        I'm really not sure why I'm being downmodded. "Constantly defragging in the background" is exactly the meaning of the option that you can see listed in XP's TweakUI, labelled "optimize hard disk when idle."
        • FooBarWidget 17y ago
          So it's disabled by default?
          • derefr 17y ago
            No, it's enabled; in XP at least, TweakUI is the only place you can go to disable it (besides, perhaps, some Group Policy setting).
            • rbanffy 17y ago
              Well... Looking into my disk and how badly it fragments, I see Windows is doing a lousy job.
    • Tuna-Fish 17y ago
      This machine has never been defragged. Yay for xfs.