I have a 28-core Mac Pro which takes twice as long to build my project as a 16" macbook pro. I want to understand why.I'm building this project: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2The build configuration is Debug. The optimization level is set to None. There is no Swift: just C, Objective C, and interface builder XIBs. I'm using Xcode 11.3 on both machines on macOS 10.15.1.Build time summary for Mac Pro:CompileC (728 tasks) | 1673.157 secondsCompileXIB (58 tasks) | 649.565 secondsTiffUtil (121 tasks) | 36.980 seconds ProcessPCH (5 tasks) | 16.840 seconds CopyPNGFile (26 tasks) | 12.200 seconds StripNIB (1 task) | 9.133 seconds CompileMetalFile (21 tasks) | 6.290 seconds CompileAssetCatalog (1 task) | 1.688 seconds Ld (2 tasks) | 1.528 seconds Libtool (3 tasks) | 1.098 seconds CodeSign (7 tasks) | 0.768 seconds PhaseScriptExecution (1 task) | 0.248 seconds MetalLink (2 tasks) | 0.222 seconds DataModelCompile (1 task) | 0.171 seconds ProcessPCH++ (2 tasks) | 0.053 seconds Touch (1 task) | 0.003 secondsBuild time summary for Macbook Pro:CompileC (728 tasks) | 290.118 seconds CompileXIB (58 tasks) | 12.626 seconds ProcessPCH (5 tasks) | 9.958 seconds TiffUtil (121 tasks) | 5.955 seconds CompileMetalFile (21 tasks) | 5.135 seconds CompileAssetCatalog (1 task) | 1.283 seconds Ld (2 tasks) | 1.143 seconds CopyPNGFile (26 tasks) | 1.102 seconds CodeSign (7 tasks) | 0.734 seconds Libtool (3 tasks) | 0.332 seconds PhaseScriptExecution (1 task) | 0.197 seconds DataModelCompile (1 task) | 0.196 seconds MetalLink (2 tasks) | 0.083 seconds ProcessPCH++ (2 tasks) | 0.046 seconds StripNIB (1 task) | 0.012 seconds Touch (1 task) | 0.001 secondsObservations:* Clock time is 52.2 seconds for the Mac Pro vs 27.6 seconds on the Macbook Pro.* CPU utilization on the Mac Pro is abysmal. It stays around 30%. The macbook pro stays at 100% while building.* No throttling, per Intel Power Gadget. The average clock rate stays at 3.4ghz while building.* CPU temperature never exceeds 60 degrees C.* I get the same results when source and build folders are in a ramdisk on the Mac Pro.* I/O doesn't seem to be a problem, as shown by iostat: https://pastebin.com/avjaQ3ZE* I have tried reducing parallelism by setting the IDEBuildOperationMaxNumberOfConcurrentCompileTasks user default, but it doesn't have any effect.* I made a script that injected timestamps into the command-line xcodebuild, which can be seen here: https://pastebin.com/yWdN27S8My best theory is that so enough of the work is not parallelizable that the lower base clock rate is the problem, but I'm surprised how big the effect is considering there are over 600 translation units.I would like to learn more about how to diagnose such an issue, since I'm pretty much out of ideas of what to try next.
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I see that Big Sur added -[NSImage imageWithSystemSymbolName:accessibilityDescription]. Unlike its iOS countertpart, there is no UIImageSymbolConfiguration that allows me to choose a different size class.
Have I overlooked this? Or is it coming in a future beta?
I'm trying to add support for Shortcuts to my Mac app.
I followed the steps here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit/adding_user_interactivity_with_siri_shortcuts_and_the_shortcuts_app?language=objc
but my app does not show up in Shortcuts.
In addition to those steps, I also added my intent to (main app target) > General > Supported Intents. This had no effect.
I believe that I don't need to create a separate intents extension for mac as you would on iOS. I tried that as well, but it still didn't show up in Shortcuts.
This is a pure AppKit app, not iOS, not Catalyst.
Is there a magic Info.plist key I'm missing? This problem is frustrating because there doesn't seem to be any way to analyze it.
If you want to see what I've done it's at https://github.com/gnachman/iterm2.git in these branches:
intents_extension
main_app_intent