init observations

[Bill Nottingham]

Dimi Paun (dimi at lattica.com) said: 
> This is offtopic, but I think in general we have a problem
> with startup times. For example, starting gedit (which is
> marketed as a fast and simple text editor) on my fairly
> decent 3GHz CPU/1GB RAM box takes a *few* seconds. This
> should be instantaneous (<300ms). I think we're about 100
> slower then we should be. And this is in an area that people
> care about startup times more than for boot. I wouldn't
> be surprised to have similar inefficiencies during init.

Disk seek.

Bill