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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."

3 of 375 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I love OS X by IHSW · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly you've never installed Windows 2000 over Windows ME.

  2. Re:I love OS X by dreemernj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed. Windows ME was a crime against humanity.

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  3. Ironic? by MoogMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Consider the following a sampling of such optimizations, in no particular order

    I'm somewhat concerned that an optimisation geek did not order his data set.