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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: Yosemite or how to make OSX look like iOS  :(
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:32:18 +0000 (UTC)
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Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> writes:

> "Classic" Finder was fast because it needed very little metadata.  What 
> it did need was found in a well cached database maintained by HFS.  OS X 
> Finder needs to hit the disk hundreds or thousands of times to collect 
> all the metadata for displaying folder.  The technical claims for this 
> change are questionable.  (My bet is that Apple lacked multithreading 
> skills needed for the original design on multi-core systems.)

OS 10.3's rendering of previously created icons of 4500 image files
in a folder is at least a thousand times faster than 10.9 on the same
folder.

Billy Y..
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