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<title id="t">Time to start a trivial command</title>
<desc id="d">Horizontal bars, milliseconds, lower is better. doos: 15 to 66 ms; Podman: 216 to 233 ms; Docker: 346 to 449 ms; bubblewrap: 8 to 9 ms. Exact values are in the table in COMPARISON.md.</desc>
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<text class="t2" x="20" y="46">10 runs each, average, warm cache, 2026-10-25, kernel 7.0.0-38-generic, 12 cores. Docker is a rootful daemon.</text>
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