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A comment on macOS 11: copies of dynamic libraries are no longer present on the file system.

Re:macOS 11: copies of dynamic libraries are no longer prese... by sjnu on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:35AM (#23613698)
Frees up a gig or two of disk space. Good.
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Re:macOS 11: copies of dynamic libraries are no longer prese... by loeg on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:46AM (#23613848)
Frees up cheap disk space by moving the library contents to expensive RAM? That doesn't seem like a good thing. And it also doesn't seem possible — you want system libraries to survive reboot. Presumably these files exist somewhere on disk, just hidden.
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Re:macOS 11: copies of dynamic libraries are no longer prese... by plorkyeran on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:21AM (#23615070)
The dylib cache is stored on disk. It's saving disk space by only having that copy of the libraries instead of two copies.
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Re:macOS 11: copies of dynamic libraries are no longer prese... by loeg on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:21PM (#23622802)
What would the second copy be?
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Re:macOS 11: copies of dynamic libraries are no longer prese... by saagarjha on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:36AM (#23614424)
Not hidden, just inside the ROSP partition at /System/Library/dyld.
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