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10 Things Apple Did To Make Mac OS X Faster

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the road-to-betterment dept.

bariswheel writes "This kernelthread article seeks to investigate further to the inner core of OS X and the improvements therein. The subtopics are the following: BootCache, Kernel Extensions Cache, Hot File Clustering, Working Set Detection, On-the-fly Defragmentation, Prebinding, Helping Developers Create Code Faster, Helping Developers Create Faster Code, Journaling in HFS Plus, and Instant-on."

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  1. Re:What about OSes with GNOME? by shywolf9982 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can get X run on it? WOW. Anyway, consider that blackbox is just a window manager, when GNOME, like KDE and others, starts a ton of background processes that take care of many things (wallets/keychains, sound daemons, etc etc) that goes beyond the "let's show some windows".

    Said that, since I don't need those things, I'm a happy user of blackbox and derivates, which I can also use on windows (and surprisingly, everyone that saw me using it wanted me to install it on their windoze box)

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  2. Re:Call me weird, but... by kilodelta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Umm - to this day MS operatings systems have a command prompt. Granted, it's now emulated instead of an actual part of the OS. But load QuickBasic in a command prompt and then watch your XP box crawl.

    Yes, early versions of Windows were DOS based. And DOS and CP/M pretty much evolved from Unix system III or so. It's also painfully obvious that Gates ripped off BASIC and DOS. Interesting that some of the most successful started as criminal empires, no matter how small.

    For instance - I'm sure those who've heard of Conversent know about it's sordid beginnings. It started with a stole MicroVax II - run as Intelecom Data Systems. Years later it sold out to form Conversent but the base of the company is still a criminal act. Charming.

  3. Re:What about OSes with GNOME? by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    KDE, too.

    Actually this is a general feature of most software. Just not Microsoft's software.

    Most software gets _faster_ in between versions. New features may run slower, but other aspects of the software should speed up, not slow down. Optimization takes time.

    People are just used to Microsoft, where (version ++1) = (hardware ++1)

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