Build notes
Long-form posts on how Delve gets made: the picture, the GPU, the bookkeeping, the things we left on the cutting-room floor. Written by the people writing the code.
APFS clones, hardlinks, and iCloud dataless stubs each
make logical file size a lie in their own way. Why
du, Finder's Get Info, and most disk
visualizers overcount by tens of gigabytes, and how
to count honestly.
The picture is the product, the picture is on the GPU, and the bookkeeping underneath has to be honest or none of it is worth shipping. A walk through the squarified layout, the cushion shading, hit-testing without an index, the bulk-stat trick, and how APFS clones are counted.
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