[thechat] Good news from... Mac OSX

[Dave McLean]

http://www.mosr.com/

"Friday, April 6
OS X Developer CD acceleration update Tips & Tricks

Recently, the OS X community was surprised to learn that a substantial speed
boost could be had by running the Developer Tools installer included with
Mac OS X on a second CD. It turns out that the bulk, if not all, of the
acceleration comes from the installer performing an "Optimizing System
Performance" operation -- essentially, the installer "prebinds" objects in
the system and applications, locking them into a form where the can be
executed most efficiently.

Interestingly, you don't actually have to run the Dev Tools Installer to get
this speed boost -- you can run it any time you wish by typing "sudo
update_prebinding -root /" at the command line. After installing a slew of
new Cocoa applications, for example, you may want to run this operation to
prebind their objects (in some cases this may have been done already -- in
others, the way an application is designed may prevent this from having any
effect) and optimize them."