How to debug slow startup times?

[Caolán McNamara]

On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 18:36 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear LibreOffice folks,
> 
> 
> My parents, the most important users, noted slow startup times of 
> LibreOffice. It turns out, that lots of installed fonts slow it down 
> considerably [1].

Its possible that
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=babf6d5e53516e80e8e3f2485796ebfaeb20e9c1
was overly optimistic, but some profiling information as to where the
time is getting spent is needed to see where the bottleneck is