RFC: startup time - again

[Raindog]

Russel Winder wrote:
> I fully agree that you can undertake small percentage (less than the
> variance) improvement work and still progress.  On this I have no
> quibble -- I accept that getting 10 instance of a 2% improvement is real
> progress.  What worries me is that 5% of 0.5s is a minor issue compared
> to trimming 5% of the 90s it takes to do many of the things that Bazaar
> is being asked to do on an hour by hour basis for real programmers using
> real repositories.  It is a question of priorities.
>   

I totally agree with you here. Trimming a half second down to a quarter 
second is nothing compared to trimming 90 seconds down to 9 seconds.