preload is a

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program which runs as a

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to record statistics about usage of files by more frequently-used programs. This information is then used to keep these files preloaded into

memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, ...

.Preload — An Adaptive Prefetching Daemon

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, 2006. This results in faster application startup times as less data needs to be fetched from disk. preload is often paired with

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. preload was written by

and uses

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s in its implementation;

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"Analyzing and improving GNOME startup time"
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) Preloading and prebinding Linux process- and task-management-related software {{linux-stub

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