Dapper speed improvement

[Loïc Martin]

Hi,
There has been discussions in the past about speed improvements in 
Dapper, mainly about the boot time (some reported they where able to cut 
their boot time in half) and about Gnome (especially starting time).

However, I see no improvements over Breezy (it is even slower for a few 
applications like Thunderbird) so I'd like to now if something is badly 
configured on my computer, or if these times are normal.

I've got a P4M 1800 Mhz, 1 Gig ram and a 7200t/min hard drive, and I use 
the default Dapper configuration, with Gnome, except I use the Myst 
theme supposed to be a bit faster. Here are the times :

- Boot time : 1 min 10 sec from Grub menu to login screen
- Time from login screen to the desktop : 44 seconds
(huge, it's about 35 sec on Breezy. Previous Gnome versions - gnome 
2.13.sthg had this time down to 27 sec, but it got worse with Gnome 2.14)
Applications launch time :
- nautilus : 5 sec (7sec total till it shows what's inside the home 
directory)
- gedit : 5 sec
- gnome-terminal : 4 sec (5 sec total till it shows the prompt)
- Firefox : 22 sec
- Thunderbird : 25 sec
- Open Office writer : 33 sec

Has anyone timed their computer with a recent Dapper, and do you think 
these times are normal or is it a configuration pb (some OS are able to 
boot during the time it takes to either Firefox, Thunderbird or Open 
Office to launch).

If you have timed your computer, what are your times and do you notice 
an improvement over Breezy?