Today it's working faster for me. Not TTFF though, but if it's just been running.
I built the Maemo gpstracker demo and use that to turn the GPS on - it does clever stuff like restarting gpsd if it dies etc. - and cgps from the official gpsd site to listen to gpsd (netcat works too, e.g. " nc localhost 2947", you can type things like "p" to get
a position or "r" to see raw NMEA).
About 9 seconds for gpsd to start from when I start the tracker, and another 3
seconds for a fix to show up. So that's a bit more reasonable - about 12 seconds.

As reported in https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2877, gpsdriver loads files
from /var/lib/gps/ when the GPS starts and saves them when it stops.
It ought to be possible to update these from an approximate position (guessed, from
Google Maps, from your cellphone cell ID via Bluetooth/Gnokii, from nearby WiFi ESSIDs
as per Google's projects...) to address the appalling TTFF seen when arriving at the airport
from another country.