Will it make it faster or slower?

I still do not feel hibernate and suspend are completely reliable and always appropriate. Boot time may not be important for a server or desktop which goes months between reboots, but for a laptop or netbook it is very important. When I use my netbook I often am performing a task which may take only 30 seconds once I boot up, therefore depending on the boot time my task could take twice as long to complete.

I would not be surprised if Debian did not care about boot time given my earlier logic. Most people who care about boot time will probably be using Ubuntu or a similar distro.