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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:06:25 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] About 9P ...
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On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 20:37 -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> Because after
> all the encryption and public key operations, it's really
> looking up the fids that is eating all the cpu.

  Now this is an interesting point, because it sort of argues
in favor of doing the lookups on the client and conserving
CPU cycles of the server where the cycles can be more precious.

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. But then again, in Plan 9: the server is a client is a
server ;-)