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OS X 10.6 may use FreeBSD's ULE scheduler to boost SMP performance (neosmart.net)
2 points by ComputerGuru on June 10, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


It would be great if this were true... but I doubt it. I've never heard any indication that Apple's scheduler has much in common with any of the FreeBSD schedulers -- my recollection is that their scheduler comes from the Mach side of things. They might borrow a few ideas here and there, but schedulers generally tend to be pretty tied to their parent kernels, so I'd be surprised if any ULE code migrated to OS X verbatim.

File this one under "cool story, too bad it's not true".




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