On 01.08.2012 16:04, Wang Weber wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am very interested in GRUB2. Recently I found that the linux initrd
> loading speed (i386-pc) is quite poor compared with GRUB1. I compared
> grub-1.98 with grub0.97, it is almost 7 times worse. 
> 

Please use latest version (2.00 or bzr) before doing such comparisons.
This is something that was fixed quite some time ago.

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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko