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Intro

I'm trying to figure out where Firefox startup time goes, up to the return from BrowserStartup (Javascript function). I'm also manipulating DTrace into telling me where time is going, without making any assumptions.

Current status

August 21, 2009

Blogged.

August 24, 2009

Should really be using vtimestamp instead of timestamp since the latter includes DTrace overhead. vtimestamp counts CPU time of the current thread and should not be used in the BEGIN and END sections of the D script.

My DTrace scripts live here.

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