[Desktop 12.10 Topic] Application startup time (AKA "Please use my RAM!")

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Den 22. april 2012 10:36, skrev Milan Bouchet-Valat:
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> Looks like you're asking for something like suspend or hibernate to me.
> What's the point in replicating features that do this perfectly? Better
> spend your energy in fixing them if they don't work on your box.

No, I'm not talking about suspend and resume. That's something entirely
different. If you install upgrades and have to reboot, for instance, you
can't just suspend and resume. You have to actually reboot the system.
Then it's just as slow as it always has been.

What if you have hundreds of users and people  sit down on different
computers every day? Suspend won't fix that. You can still load
applications into RAM at boot so that when a user sits down, it doesn't
have to be retrieved from the network, processed and loaded into RAM.
That will increase the load speed for the user, but it will also reduce
the network traffic when people show up.

Different concepts altogether. There are lots of things that can be
improved.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad