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57 mentions on Hacker News by 47 people: 2 stories, 55 comments · first 2022-04-25 · latest 2026-09-21

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  1. …to speed up compression of up to page size increments specifically to aid in this model [1] [1] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/bb611c8f...
  2. …It's been possible to build your own XNU[5] for a long time. Is that still possible now? [1]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu [2]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project [3]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/llvmCore…
  3. Last commit was earlier this year for a Monterey release: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu . The next one will almost certainly be for the first build of Ventura. Here is the header for the (private) function…
    comment by saagarjha · 2022-10-10 · in Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
  4. …Click on the release (Monterey 12.5) and scroll down. xnu-8020.140.41 is there.. Links to: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/tree/xnu-8020...
    comment by xaerise · 2022-10-04 · in Ask HN: Examples of Microkernels?
  5. It's based on a microkernel (mach) but is hybrid, and the source is available https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/tree/xnu-8020...
    comment by euclaise · 2022-10-04 · in Ask HN: Examples of Microkernels?
  6. …https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/703361 and more specifically this linked source file: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/bb611c8f... I agree with your other points though!
  7. Apple's documentation for the XNU kernel describes the scheduler implementation. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/xnu-8019...
    comment by grahamlee · 2022-04-25 · in How macOS manages M1 CPU cores