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Understanding Mac OS X Kernel

Posted by timothy on from the deep-in-the-heart-of-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Kernelthread.com has published a flash presentation overview of the Mac OS X kernel. Its title is 'A Tour of the Mac OS X Kernel' and it also covers Tiger features. Maybe interesting to note is that the slides are from a talk given to the NSA. Well, there is a nice security architecture diagram towards the end of the presentation."

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  1. Re:Embedd C++ by Nuuskis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Embedded C++ is upwards compatible subset of ANSI Standard C++. So if you have written very simple C++, for example when coming from C and making your first C++ program, you probably "used" EC++. It is just C++ without namespaces, templates, exceptions, RTTI (Runtime Type Identification), STL (Standard Template Library), and some other stuff that might make executable noticeably bigger and cause unwanted memory consumption.