On Apr 6, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> This needs to be profiled. Otherwise we'd just be speculating on possible causes with no real hard data. (This is where tools like oprofile come in handy, but I have no idea if something similar is available on OSX.)
I think OS X has dtrace…but I'd be interested to see if this issue appears on other platforms, too.
David