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you probably have about 12GB of RAM, and launch every application you might use at login
That's exactly right.
But no, it wasn't already running. It was not really a ``cold start'', however, as I had just quit the running instance to perform the test, so most of its data was already cached. My test procedure was of course ``
time open -a TextMate'', which measures the time from the initial launch request until TextMate calls
[NSApp finishLaunching], the same action that stops the dock bounce.
This is all academic though, because in any sane universe one
would already have TextMate running, at which point opening a file using the command-line client takes less than 0.1 seconds.