macosframeworksdylib

Trying to find the MacOS Framework binaries


I am wondering if anyone knows where the real MacOS framework binaries are located? The traditional answer would be /System/Library/Frameworks and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks. Yes, there is stuff in those directories, but not the actual code.

I'm aware that, on iOS, the binaries are all amalgamated into a single, memory-mapped cache file for improved performance; the cache being shared across all running apps. I'm wondering if the same is true of recent versions of MacOS? I could see the real binaries on High Sierra, but not recently.

So I'm guessing that (as on iOS) the individual frameworks no longer exist in discrete form; everything is in a big cache file. But where is it?


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