A wild guess would be that OS X drivers contain poor shader optimizer.
Parallels probably work by decompiling DirectX shader bytecode back into GLSL, which is already optimized for OS X shader compiler, therefore there is less burden on the optimizer.
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A wild guess would be that OS X drivers contain poor shader optimizer.
Parallels probably work by decompiling DirectX shader bytecode back into GLSL, which is already optimized for OS X shader compiler, therefore there is less burden on the optimizer.
Another example of poor drivers are various GLES drivers on mobile, mostly trivial optimizations can drastically increase the performance: http://aras-p.info/blog/2010/09/29/glsl-optimizer/ and https://github.com/aras-p/glsl-optimizer
I was skeptical, but that first link speaks volumes. Interesting theory!