slow execution of built executables on a Mac

[Gabor Greif]

Maybe a symptom of an AFPS bug?
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2018/10/29/global-kernel-locks-in-apfs/

Just came across this, might be worth a look.

Cheers,

    Gabor

On 10/26/18, Richard Eisenberg <rae at cs.brynmawr.edu> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> I have a shiny, new iMac in my office. It's thus frustrating that it takes
> my iMac longer to build GHC than my trusty 28-month-old laptop. Building
> devel2 on a fresh checkout takes just about an hour. By contrast, my laptop
> is done after 30 minutes of work (same build settings). The laptop has a
> 2.8GHz Intel i7 running macOS 10.13.5; the desktop has a 3.5GHz Intel i5
> running macOS 10.13.6. Both bootstrapped from the binary distro of GHC
> 8.6.1.
>
> Watching GHC build, everything is snappy enough during the stage-1 build.
> But then, as soon as we start using GHC-produced executables, things slow
> down. It's most noticeable in the rts_dist_HC phase, which crawls. Stage 2
> is pretty slow, too.
>
> So: is there anything anyone knows about recent Macs not liking locally
> built executables? Or is there some local setting that I need to update? The
> prepackaged GHC seems to work well, so that gives me hope that someone knows
> what setting to tweak.
>
> Thanks!
> Richard
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