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I am optimizing the startup of a WinForms app. One issue I identified is the loading of the splash screen form. It takes about half a second to a second.
I know that multi-threading is a no-no on UI pieces, however, seeing how the splash screen is a fairly autonomous piece of the application, is it possible to somehow mitigate its performance hit by throwing it one some other thread (perhaps in the way Chrome does it), so that the important pieces of the application can actually get going.
The .NET framework already has very good support for splash screens in Windows Forms apps. Check this thread for a code sample. It is indeed optimized for warm startup time, it makes sure the splash thread and screen is up and running before initializing the main app.