GPU drivers have always been a nightmare on OS X, but I didn't know just how bad they really are. Keep in mind that we're comparing against Mesa drivers here. T

GPU drivers have always been a nightmare on OS X, but I didn't know just how bad they really are. Keep in mind that we're comparing against Mesa drivers here. Try to imagine what the benchmarks will look like when Valve's Steam Machines have shipped. The same is true for HFS+. No real surprises here, even though I didn't know it was that slow. Most people are probably more interested in ZFS vs. Btrfs benchmarks. I would have loved to see some kernel oriented benchmarks like network stack performance, etc., but then again, performance benchmarks don't really matter anyway. I'd like OS vendors to focus a bit more on perceived performance. Just the other day I plugged an external USB HDD into my MacBook Pro and a YouTube video stopped playing in Chrome (because of some blocking IO call, I presume). The same happens quite frequently with network IO and freezing UIs.