On 30 Mar 2010, at 12:19, Glen Gray wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2010, at 12:10, Michael Meeks wrote:
>> Intel's bootchart is very
>> small, pure C, has no dependencies etc. There are plenty of
>> semi-technical arguments you can make in it's favour.
> 
> Such as the interpreter taking longer to start than the OS
> 
> "(clear example: we used to have a bootchart rendered in java in moblin: just 
> enabling the render program at boot would suck in the entire java engine into 
> the IO load at boot time - costing us seconds of boot time and lots of 
> memory. We then found a python implementation, but that one turned out to 
> have pretty much the same cost w/r memory and IO footprint. Now we have a 
> C-implementation I ended up writing, which is incredibly cheap compared to 
> the other two alternatives)."
> - http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-dev/2010-February/000580.html

Why would the rendering be done at boot-time? Surely this would be done *after* 
boot?

> Glen Gray
> <[email protected]>

Regards,
Jamie.
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