Impressed by Disabling InnoDB Redo Logging for Creating Tables as Fast as Possible

In the last weeks / months, I have been working on understanding / improving MySQL startup with many tables. I already wrote a post about my work (Faster MySQL Startup with Many Tables). In that post, I link to a bug report (Bug #115988 : Too Much Disk Read on Startup, penalizing deployments with many tables). In that bug report, I write, without much details, that the