Mavericks Core Technologies Overview

[SJ_UnderWater]

Apple has posted a PDF explaining the technologies used in Mavericks, which range from the usual EFI and Kernel, to the newer Compressed Memory (using WKdm), App Nap, and Timer Coalescing (only of interest to Cocoa developers). It also reveals SMB2 (the second version of Windows' SMB) will be the new default protocol for file sharing, pushing AFP to second place. AFP is still required for TimeMachine. I recommend anyone unfamiliar with a Mac's technologies read it, there's something for everyone: System Startup BootROM EFI Kernel Drivers Initialization Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) Compressed Memory Power Efficiency App Nap Timer Coalescing

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[Naico]

Hopefully it will work really good on our CustoMacs!

 

[tempest]

In the PDF it says Airplay devices can be used as regular sound output device. I wonder if they fixed the Airplay latency for that.

 

[DoFoT9]

Cheers for this, good read. I was particularly interested in the new caching technology for memory management.

--DoF

 

[ATB]

Cool! Thanks for uploading!

 

[ATB]

Hopefully it will work really good on our CustoMacs!

same here, I second that one

 

[brownin]

Very interesting read, explained certain terminologies that I had always seen but not known.

Thanks for the upload

 

[sean2e]

Apple has posted a PDF explaining the technologies used in Mavericks, which range from the usual EFI and Kernel, to the newer Compressed Memory (using WKdm), App Nap, and Timer Coalescing (only of interest to Cocoa developers). It also reveals SMB2 (the second version of Windows' SMB) will be the new default protocol for file sharing, pushing AFP to second place. AFP is still required for TimeMachine. I recommend anyone unfamiliar with a Mac's technologies read it, there's something for everyone: System Startup BootROM EFI Kernel Drivers Initialization Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) Compressed Memory Power Efficiency App Nap Timer Coalescing

Disk Layout Partition Scheme Core Storage File Systems Process Control Launchd Loginwindow Grand Central Dispatch Sandboxing GateKeeper XPC

Network Access Ethernet Wi-Fi Multihoming IPv6 Network File Systems Access Control Lists Directory Services Remote Access Bonjour Document Lifecycle Auto Save Automatic Versions Version Management iCloud Storage

Data Management Spotlight Time Machine Developer Tools Xcode LLVM Instruments Accelerate Automation WebKit

When I watched the Keynote and it showed how much or in this case little ram Mavericks uses I just thought "Now when I buy my Haswell 13" Retina I'm not getting the extra ram upgrade"

 

[Bob_the_Tomato]

New link for that Apple pdf: http://www.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_Technology_Overview.pdf