Comment by kreco
20 hours ago
Why not both?
The applications are launched at startup time because they have runtime startup slowness. The applications have startup slowness because of the JIT runtime/deps/.dll.
At the end of the day, end users pay for the cost of developer convenience (JIT and deps most of the time, even thought there are some case where dynamic linking is alright) because they don't do native apps.
Offloading everything at startup is a symptom IMO.
Replying to your specific point about virus scans. For some (naive) reason, I expect them to run a single time against a binary app that is never changed. So in theory it shouldn't even be a problem, but the reality says otherwise.
> Replying to your specific point about virus scans. For some (naive) reason, I expect them to run a single time against a binary app that is never changed.
Playing devil's advocate: the executable might not have changed, but the database of known virus signatures changes daily or more often. Either every single executable would have to be re-scanned every time the database updates, or the executable has to be lazily scanned on load.