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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 3 comments | 22 May 20 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.647s | source
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crazygringo ◴[22 May 20 18:50 UTC] No.23275526[source]▶
I'm so confused about the comments here.

There are a bunch of people who can't reproduce the slowness at all, but nearly all downvoted or you have to wade through 100's of comments to get to them.

The majority of comments are just dumping on Macs, nothing whatsoever to do with the content of the article, and seem to be blindly assuming it's true.

And I can't seem to find any substantive discussion of whether this is actually real or not, or just some weird bug on the author's machine.

I don't see any evidence that Catalina is "slow by design", just a single anecdote from the author. I was definitely hoping for some more substantive critique/discussion...

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1. tinco ◴[22 May 20 18:59 UTC] No.23275648[source]▶
Did you run the test yourself? Why do you assume people are blindly assuming it's true? For me first run was 0.5s, second run was 0.004s, so there's definitely something going on.
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2. crazygringo ◴[22 May 20 21:19 UTC] No.23277180[source]▶
I did. It got downvoted with no replies. I don't have any security settings changed or anything. First and second run were both around 0.005s.

That's why I wrote this new comment, in the hopes that maybe it would be seen.

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3. tinco ◴[22 May 20 21:29 UTC] No.23277270[source]▶
Weird. I just noticed that the difference was only the very first time I ran that test. After that the second one was only 100% faster than the first one. That could easily be explained by filesystem / caching things.