boat.dev's VMs now have 11.5× faster first agent answer on resume/fork
sandbox latency isn't about boot time at all
when you boot from a snapshot, the VM might boot fast
but running stuff on it initially might still be slow as the files are lazily restored in the background
so we've been making that process way more optimized over time
median time, before → now:
- Claude Code, first answer: 102s → 8.8s (−91%)
- pi, first answer: 127s → 13s (−90%)
- Codex, first answer: 62s → 8.1s (−87%)
- Android, emulator ready: 115s → 47s (−60%)
- Web apps, first page: 16s → 14s (−16%)
p90s also got shrunk to quite near the median:
- Claude Code: 120s → 12s (−90%)
- pi: 127s → 60s (−53%)
- Codex: 114s → 9.3s (−92%)
- Android: 155s → 52s (−66%)
- Web apps: 24s → 19s (−23%)
this is still to be improved further with caching! these are fully uncached times, requiring full snapshot transfer over the wire from object storage