From the Hacker News thread
Funny that this is what trends, and not the flame chart of the different boot times of different FBSD versions: twitter.com/cperciva/status/16590594456… At a glance looks like 13.1-RELEASE booted 3x faster than 11.1-RELEASE, and 14.0-CURRENT on Firecracker boots 45x faster than 11.1-RELEASE on a c5.xlarge