Comment by specialist
4 years ago
You kid. But truer things are said in jest.
> ...Tomorrow, someone’s going to reduce the boot times of macOS by 90% by the same principle.
My 2019 MacBook often pauses when I connect the charging cable. Sometimes it just seizes, requiring a hard bounce.
Clearly there's a contended lock buried deep. Something non-obvious.
I'm certain everything these days has dozens of hidden quadratics and contended locks.
Which is one of the reasons I'm excited for stuff like structured concurrency (Java's Project Loom) and retoolings like systemd becoming the norm.
Ages ago I worked on kitchen sink app that had a very finicky startup. Any breeze would break it. Much consternation by mgmt. Apparently if we only clapped louder, Tinkerbell would fly. I couldn't take it any more. LARPing as a bulldozer, I replumbed the innards, changing from something like initd to be more like systemd with some lazy loading for good measure. Voila!
Back to GTA. The failure here is the product owner didn't specify a max load time, and then hold the team to it. Devs will mostly do the work that's expected of them. If load time wasn't measured (and managed), no one is going to bother with expunging sscanfs.
> My 2019 MacBook often pauses when I connect the charging cable. Sometimes it just seizes, requiring a hard bounce.
Yesterday my MBP kernel panicked because my keyboard was low on battery and the bluetooth connection kept dropping. There's something weird with MacOS where peripherals seem to really not be well isolated from the core OS runtime.
Oh peripherals on newer Macs are somehow very hit or miss. I have a very difficult time with external monitors, especially from sleep. My MBP 16" would just loop between initializing and failing to initialize, until I unplug, wait, and re-plug again. Or I have to press the `Extend` option instead of the `Mirror` option that I use. The older 2015 MBP would just connect fine.