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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. I love OS X by BoomerSooner · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OS X is the only OS I"ve ever installed that subsequent versions speed up my older computers. Amazing... I'm waiting for an Apple Intel Tower and I'll retire my G4 Tower.

    Damn ADC interface.. what am i to do with this big ass cinema display?!?!!?

  2. Panther to Tiger? by fa_king · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I updated from Panther(10.3) to Tiger(10.4) and my machine seemed slower. I decided to do a fresh install, and things improved, as always the fresh install is better than an update.

    I still think that Panther was running a bit faster tahn Tiger, maybe it is the widgets..........
    silly widgets!

    This was all done on a PowerBook G4(TiBook).

  3. Linux by metamatic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Linux gets faster too.

    Kernel 2.4 to 2.6 was a pretty big jump in speed. I just upgraded to the latest KDE and a bunch of other updates, and got another performance jump. Once they shake the bugs out of the Radeon drivers for X.org, I'll get accelerated X, and another big speed boost.

    In fact, of the major OSs, it's pretty much only Windows that keeps getting slower.

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