I’m bouncing around the house this morning because I finally trimmed the boot time on my 300Mhz laptop to under 40 seconds! 
I deciphered mkinitcpio with the 0.8 installer, and I was able to skim through the hardware detection phase in a fraction of the time. And I found a few more kernel modules that don’t need loading, so that step is shorter too.
I’ll explain more later. For now, I’m too busy patting myself on the back! 
That’s really awesome, man. I’m still at the “headbanging hardware troubleshooting” stage with Arch on my wife’s laptop…. do we _really_ need sound? lol