After a nice discussion about the virtues of the current MacOS kernel as opposed to a Linux/BSD one, I did some performance testing. Yes, some stuff is slower on the Mac. But many people have accused ...

I am launching three threads, each of which relies on three different functions, countA(), countB() and countC() respectively. Each function does the same thing, i.e. counts from 1 – 2^32. The ...

A failing unit test as part of a separate project led me to investigate some odd performance characteristics. At first glance - and I'm not an expert on this - it looks like locks are really expensive ...