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Faking Matlab to speed macOS startup
Discovery that pretending to be Matlab on macOS cuts binary startup overhead by 10%, with a technical link.
Key points
- On macOS, binary startup overhead can be reduced by 10%, but only if the binary is renamed to start with MATLAB.
- The original poster said there is no other way to enable this behavior, and warned that having strong definitions overriding weak ones will cause bad things to happen.
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Reaction on X: Most replies joke about the finding, calling the binary's "method-acting era" and comparing it to Windows 95's special routine for SimCity energy, while one asks "But why?" and another calls it interesting. The original poster added that there is no other way to enable this behavior and warned about strong definitions overriding weak ones.
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