peter wrote: > > hi peter -- > > > > bootanim does both the boot-time animation and the shutdown > > ul-warning screen. it does the boot animation in an extremely > > efficient manner, shaving 10 or 11 seconds off our current boot > > times: > > 10 or 11 seconds off what? the previous bootanim version? text based > startup without it?
the current animation code in the 8.2 release. > > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-March/023688.html > > > > given the optimization that bobby and mitch put in, i suspect > > plymouth won't match it, time-wise. (though i'd love to be proven > > wrong, of course!) > > I wouldn't know off the top of my head but plymouth was designed to do > two things. Firstly a smooth startup with basically no flash from the > bios (on a standard PC) through to X, and speed. the old rhgb was > slow. Would be interesting to see a comparison. i agree -- i'm glad that there's so much more attention being paid to performance these days. paul =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected]
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