Patent attributes
A computing device (e.g., a mobile device) can execute a root process of an application to an initial point according to patterns of prior executions of the application. The root process can be one of many respective customized root processes of individual applications in the computing device. The device can receive a request to start the application from a user of the device. And, the device can start the application upon receiving the request to start the application and by using the root process of the application. At least one of the executing, receiving, or starting can be performed by an operating system in the device. The device can also fork the root process of the application into multiple processes, and can start upon receiving the request to start the application and by using at least one of the multiple processes according to the request to start the application.