Congratulations to Steve Peng on integrating the fix, which he had code reviewed on this alias, for
6351623 Initial manifest-import is slow into snv_84 yesterday. This is a *huge* deal for performance of the manifest-import service. It significantly improves performance for the first boot after install, for the first boot of virtualized (zones, XVM, VirtualBox, etc.) deployments, and on system upgrades. In a quick and dirty test on a bare-metal Solaris install, I found manifest-import was 3.15 *times* faster at importing the ~189 manifests currently included with SXDE. Steve's seen even better performance on many machines -- more like 6.6 times faster! For those deploying diskless clients, the change in first-boot performance should be nothing less of remarkable. liane
