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Old Apr 21, 2006 | 6:28 am
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Originally Posted by LIH Prem
Well, the etremetech article does say that all the fonts are loaded at startup, and I think I may have heard that before.

I guess it will be interesting to see what sort of improvement somebody sees on a real system by trying this.

My boot time is horrendous, but it's because I have so many startup items. (Yes, I've gotten rid of most of the ones I don't need, but you always have to keep up with that.)

-David
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