On optimizing Linux boots: “The X Window System runs the C preprocessor and compiler on startup, in order to build its keyboard mappings.”

And that [gulp … hrullphh] is all you need to know about X [grwawwwlphh!].

Link.

Later in the article: “X is still problematic. ‘We had to do a lot of damage to X…’ ”

I mean, how could they tell?

[Edit: diked-out compiler reference, based on comments.]

