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From: enk@noddy (Edan Kabatchnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Inits & Boot Time
Keywords: INIT
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Date: 21 Jul 89 21:03:58 GMT
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Reply-To: enk@sj.ate.slb.com (Edan Kabatchnik)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
	      Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Net,

     It is pretty clear that by adding INITs to your system you pay a time
penalty while booting your machine.  My questions to you are:

     1) Does the bottleneck arise from the actual loading of the INITs or
        the seek time in between INITs?  (Of course, this may vary from
        machine to machine depending on processor, hard disk, etc.)

     2) If the bottleneck is the seek time, then is it possible to cut down
        boot time by combining all the INITs into one (preferably contiguous)
        file?

     I have sucessfully combined two INITs into one file; however, it is
often the case that two INITs share identical resource numbers, which
prevents them from being combined (at least to my knowledge).

     If anyone has done this or knows anything about it, I would appreciate
your expertise.

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