init observations

[Bill Nottingham]

Dimi Paun (dimi at lattica.com) said: 
> I think this is missing the point -- we are not talking about some
> big database intensive application that needs special handling to
> work optimally. We are talking about the simplest application on
> the desktop, on a fairly beefy machine, running the most stock FC4
> out there.
> 
> If I need to do _anything_ special to get gedit to start in a decent
> manner, something is clearly wrong. And BTW, try to start notepad
> in Windows. It's fast.
> 
> I think that anything over 500ms for gedit is bad. Even on a 500MHz box.
> Granted, part of the problem may be in the application, but the user
> doesn't know (and frankly, doesn't care).

It's disk seek on shared libraries, almost certianly. It's the majority
of lag time on *any* startup these days, including the OS itself.

Bill