>we already went through this a few weeks ago. . . . Back then, I thought the conclusion was that there is nothing broken about OS X memory management
I read through the comment of a few weeks ago, and I did not see anything conclusive or even anything that would outweigh my subjective impressions that something about Lion on my (stock) 2011 Mac mini is causing unnecessary lack of responsiveness.
You might be uncomfortable with subjective impressions and many pieces of weak evidence, but given the popularity of OS X on this site, not all of us want to wait for what you refer to as "hard facts" before engaging in a discussion of the issue.
Yes, I had it bookmarked. Actually, I had bookmarked a particular subtree of the comments tree, but repeated following of the "parent" link should get you the whole tree. The particular subtree is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3585181
I read through the comment of a few weeks ago, and I did not see anything conclusive or even anything that would outweigh my subjective impressions that something about Lion on my (stock) 2011 Mac mini is causing unnecessary lack of responsiveness.
You might be uncomfortable with subjective impressions and many pieces of weak evidence, but given the popularity of OS X on this site, not all of us want to wait for what you refer to as "hard facts" before engaging in a discussion of the issue.