How fast can you open 1000 files?

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>The macOS system has a faster disk, faster memory and faster cores. Yet opening files is clearly much slower under macOS according to this test.

Does anyone know what is responsible for this difference? The article doesn't really go into it.

MacOS is an end-user platform. The speed of opening files is practically a premature micro-optimization.