cold starts
Engines warming up
Cold starts are engine ignitions when the engine hasn't been running and has cooled to ambient temperature: The car struggles with cold starts in winter.
In computing, a cold start is when a system or application launches without cached data or warm-up, causing slower initial response: Serverless functions suffer from cold starts.
The term emphasizes the contrast with warm or hot states where systems are already primed.
- ignitionStarting combustion process
- engineMachine producing motion
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- chillyModerately cold
- winterYear's coldest quarter
turn the key · below zero · latency · bootstrap · warming · warm up · idle · frost · morning · first thing · initialization · serverless · delay · crank · dead battery · battery · cache · spin-up
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