Another bootchart build...
I did a bit of hacking up of the java scripts for parsing, and the shell scripts for executing, the bootloader analysis work done by the Boot Process Performance Visualisation tool recently developed to help Linux folk tune their system startups for faster performance.
The following article contains a reference to some tests done on a DP of Java 1.4.2 on a Mac; some tests, namely those from the PC, are on an unknown Acer. As the article says, the relative performance is the crucial issue here, not the actual numbers. The systems in these tests are by no means 'high performance' systems; they're both PowerBook systems, and old ones at that.
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