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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by nerpderp82 on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:08PM (#36005708)
The problem here isn't the boot time, but the booting at all!!
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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by giantrobot on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:55PM (#36006130)
Having a microVM handle a rare endpoint and then exit is often cheaper than leaving an EC2 instance running constantly. An EC2 instance also has extra administration needs. At some scales the savings can be significant.

Shaving ms off the boot of that VM is a performance boost of that lambda (or whatever the cloud vendor calls it).

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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by nerpderp82 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @05:41PM (#36051202)
Why does anything have to boot? What does booting do?
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