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FreeBSD (HEAD) no longer spends time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs. We're now running a mergesort which is ~100x faster

twitter.com /cperciva/status/1693127769901969772

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205053

For people (like me) who are wondering why a kernel needs to boot in under 28ms: It's for virtual machines that get launched on-demand in services like AWS Lambda. https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecrac...

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[HN] FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs, results in 100x speed
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