ProcessInfo & Device Physics

"Where we're going, we don't need Instruments"

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Today we’re looking at ProcessInfo. As a physics grad, it’s my favourite lesser-known Foundation API*.

ProcessInfo is a singleton running in each app process, offering simple programmatic access to hardware & physical profiling—the kind of system-level data you usually only see with Instruments.

In this edition of Quick Hacks, I’ll demonstrate what you can do with ProcessInfo, and explain how I’ve used them in my own apps.

*Sorry, NSScanner.

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