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Understanding OS X Kernel Internals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the knowing-more-about-the-insides dept.

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."

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  1. "OS X is slow" claims investigated by Logic+and+Reason · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before anyone starts spouting off again about Mac OS X being "slow by design" or somesuch, read this article by an Apple engineer that investigates those claims.

  2. Ad by AstrumPreliator · · Score: 4, Informative

    I looked at the "presentation" and no, it doesn't do a very good job of explaining anything. Maybe combined with an extensive lecture to explain what the hell he's talking about would make it a bit more clear. From what I saw it was basically just enumerating the different components. Then I noticed the second to last slide. It's basically an ad for a book coming out.

    Maybe it's just me though. Did anyone else find it extremely enlightening?