So instead of waiting for the system to boot up, you now have to wait for the system to shut down (because it is writing the files required for fast booting). What an innovation!
Well, generally when you're starting your computer up, you're waiting for it to get to a usable state so you can get some useful work (and I use the term loosely) done with it. When you're shutting down, you don't tend to care as much about how long it's going to take. Granted, there's still situations when you might care, but it's not like startup when you almost always do. If someone said to me, "I can make it so that your computer always starts up instantly. There's one catch though, it'll be added on to the time your computer takes to shut down." I'd say, "Sure, I'll take it!"
Also, as others have pointed out, it's only a kernel image that's written to disk, which is considerably smaller than the usual hibernation file. I get the impression it won't take anywhere near as long.
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So instead of waiting for the system to boot up, you now have to wait for the system to shut down (because it is writing the files required for fast booting). What an innovation!
Well, generally when you're starting your computer up, you're waiting for it to get to a usable state so you can get some useful work (and I use the term loosely) done with it. When you're shutting down, you don't tend to care as much about how long it's going to take. Granted, there's still situations when you might care, but it's not like startup when you almost always do. If someone said to me, "I can make it so that your computer always starts up instantly. There's one catch though, it'll be added on to the time your computer takes to shut down." I'd say, "Sure, I'll take it!"
Also, as others have pointed out, it's only a kernel image that's written to disk, which is considerably smaller than the usual hibernation file. I get the impression it won't take anywhere near as long.