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Due to its open, plugin based nature, Remote Buddy needs to access a
lot of files and do a lot of associated setup during startup phase.
This is an area where OS X doesn't particullarly shine (HFS+ is
optimized for streaming big files, not accessing many small ones) and
it doesn't get better if other apps start up at the same time.
Rest assured that I am used to optimizing my code before releasing it
and change it as I discover new opportunities for speed increases.
Startup time is an area where I don't see much if any room for
speedups, though as it's already heavily optimized.
Start and quit Remote Buddy two times in a row: the first time it'll
need 6-7 seconds to startup, the second time it'll need just 2-3
seconds. The only difference is that the filesystem has cached many of
the small files from the first startup.
That said, the only thing that you can do to speed up the startup
process is to remove all rbscriptedbehaviour bundles from Remote
Buddy's application bundle's plugin directory that you do not use.
Best regards,
Felix
