Re: [Inkscape-user] Keep Inkscape running after closing single or last document (survey)?

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:42 -0700, Alvin Penner wrote:

• if Linux requires a time delay to clear stuff, that should not be a

problem , it will still be much less than currently occurring

Linux does not require any delays in shutting down an application.

What Linux and BSD can to is delay re-using the memory that holds the application code. Since the code is still in memory, restarting is very quick. All UNIXes have had this ability since the mid-70s.