MacObsession

This is an oldie but goodie – the article is now over 2 years old. Amit Singh writes about Making An Operating System Faster – 10 things Apple did to make Mac OS X faster. No doubt over the past 5 years, Mac OS X has undergone a lot of optimization to compensate for the slow PowerPC processors.

Here are the 10 things :
* 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
* Instant-on

Read the article to find out more.

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