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Re:Firefox 4's JägerMonkey JIT status by Perceval on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @11:23AM (#1514838)
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"

Those few seconds add up.

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