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  1. Nygaard

    macOS PSA: Bypass Gatekeeper for faster builds/development cycles

    A few years late on this, but apparently when Gatekeeper was added in Catalina, it caused quite the splash (see Allan Odgaard's post, MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design). One of the big issues is that syspolicyd (aka Gatekeeper) phones home to Apple before the first launch of any new executable: not...
  2. O

    Xcode speed test - any i5 owners willing to repeat?

    I currently have the i7/128gb/8gb. Curious what difference the i7 makes versus the i5 for compiling given the slower disk IO in the 128gb. Have been testing with the standardised test here: https://github.com/ashfurrow/xcode-hardware-performance I achieve an average fresh build time of 33s...