Why are some third-party Mac applications absolute memory/CPU hogs?

javacowboyjavacowboy
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in macOS edited January 2014
I don't mean to criticize Apple or necessary to criticize the writers of these apps, but I've noticed that some of my apps eat up an outrageous amount of RAM and/or CPU:



1) Firefox

2) Thunderbird

3) eDonkey



Is there someting about the Mac platform that some developers see as an invitiation to take resource hogging shortcuts, or is it just simply a question of developer incompentence?

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    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by JavaCowboy

    I don't mean to criticize Apple or necessary to criticize the writers of these apps, but I've noticed that some of my apps eat up an outrageous amount of RAM and/or CPU:



    1) Firefox

    2) Thunderbird

    3) eDonkey



    Is there someting about the Mac platform that some developers see as an invitiation to take resource hogging shortcuts, or is it just simply a question of developer incompentence?



    One of my Cocoa apps, Jumble® Helper, is only 56KB of code and loads a 9MB file on startup. OS X assigns it 20 MB of memory. I have no idea why.
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