Bug#477083: grub-pc: Is excruciatingly slow when compared to grub (legacy)

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:09:33PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > #477083: grub-pc: Is excruciatingly slow when compared to grub (legacy)
> >
> > It has been closed by Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>.
> 
> That really fixed it! The only thing that still remains is the slow 
> build-up of the display (title -> border -> menu/background). But that 
> HUGE delay before that point is completely gone.
> 
> Kudos!
> 
> I'd already tested it in qemu, but only just did a full install in 
> VirtualBox. Both are more than acceptable now, though having that display 
> build-up slowness improved would still very much improve usability (or 
> better: result in increased quality perception).

With the current framework, there's much less room for improvement there
(unless you switch to the console terminal), because of the gfxterm
abstraction.  I expect it'll get better by the end of summer when fancy
graphics support is implemented.

-- 
Robert Millan

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