Firefox OS/Performance/Boot Sequence Optimization: Difference between revisions

Based on the current code, the earliest it is conceivably possible to run B2G would be in the early-init stage of init.rc. This stage was observed to be executing at around 4.8s of uptime. Realistically a lot of things would need to be changed for this to work (that is to say, a lot of things break when this is attempted). A more logical stage would be early-boot (which is not used in the default init script, however is a supported stage that occurs between post-fs-data and boot). What is notable about this stage is that, A.) if done here, B2G launches at around 5.8s and B.) It successfully runs. Sometimes. There are clearly some dependencies that are not quite guaranteed to be ready if one attempts to launch B2G this early, which could be the subject of a future investigation to see if those dependencies could be made to occur any earlier. But as it stands, this only launches B2G a little over 2 seconds earlier and there actually was no change in overall boot time observed (again dependencies not being requested comes to mind as an explanation).