Comment 4 for bug 589629

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Louis Simard (louis-simard-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I did preliminary results for this bug with a stopwatch. I'll explain my methodology in this post and put my results in the next one.

-- Definitions --

"Boot sequence time" is the time it takes between the "ISOLINUX" screen that appears when boot starts, and the Lucid orange-purple background just before the "Install/Try Ubuntu 10.04" dialog.

"Applications menu time" is the time it takes between clicking "Try Ubuntu 10.04", and GNOME's Applications menu appearing.

"Firefox startup time" is the time it takes between clicking the Firefox icon in GNOME, and a window starting to appear.

"Flareon" is a Compaq v2500ca laptop computer (512 MB RAM).
"Jolteon" is an HP Pavilion a6218x computer (4 GB RAM).
"Jigglypuff" is an Acer Aspire AST660 computer (512 MB RAM).

"Original" is the official build of Ubuntu 10.04 GNOME 32-bit.
"Reordered" is Original with the sort file for mksquashfs applied.