A lot of their speed comes from special tricks like bypassing the kernel and going direct to hardware (DPDK). Intel's DPDK doesn't support Mac OS X. You shoul

A lot of their speed comes from special tricks like bypassing the kernel and going direct to hardware (DPDK). Intel's DPDK doesn't support Mac OS X. You should probably develop in a VM anyways, or at least with a platform + hardware that supports these features so you can better match what production deployments will be like. I always cringe a little, for backend systems software, when people develop in an environment completely divorced from their production environment. It just creates headaches.