Understanding OS X Kernel Internals

jglidell writes "The OS X kernel has been in the news alot this past year, whether it's why its slow, Mach/micro-kernel makes it bad, it's going closed source and what not. Amit Singh has put up a new presentation on the innards of OS X. It does a pretty good job of summing up the OS X kernel architecture, and has some pretty detailed diagrams... for instance they show that there are so many process/threads layers in OS X. So if you are in the mood for doing some OS studying then head over."

Comments

Re:Poetry is the reason for slowness

[Overly Critical Guy]

You're right, the composition of that poem took the entire development staff at Apple to complete.

We should all switch from Apple's "crappy kernel" to the wonderful Linux kernel, which is now so buggy even its major developers agree it needs a bug fix cycle.