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I have always felt Mac disk IO operations to be incredibly slow. I think the problem has gotten worse since Mac started to "phone home" every time you run a new
by jadedbuthappy 4y ago
I have always felt Mac disk IO operations to be incredibly slow. I think the problem has gotten worse since Mac started to "phone home" every time you run a new executable, etc.
When running something there is a noticable delay. On Linux it's instant. This can be felt with the terminal especially.
- sdflhasjd 4y agoMacs always get good benchmarks when it comes to disk speed, and I think the software then lets it down. APFS was disappointing (although maybe thats changed now), Finder could take as long to list a large folder as Explorer on a grotty spinning rust PC would. Even on my swanky new M1 mac, browsing through the disk has a noticeable lag when compared with Windows or Linux. Builtin Archive utility is noticeably slower than alternatives too, which makes things like XCode updates particularly slow even after you've finished downloading.