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ben0x539 on Dec 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive

If it's really old, shouldn't it be faster as it would've been designed to perform adequately on way slower CPUs? ;)

pvg on Dec 9, 2016 | [–]

No? There are a dozen trivial reasons you can easily think of why that wouldn't be the case.

goldenkek on Dec 9, 2016 | [–]

Newer means different. Older means different. Different CPU meet differently optimized code meet different cocoa framework. Narf!

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