From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9 From: andrey mirtchovski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-fmhrcfncexvxjktdlycblxlzzc" Message-Id: <20020225145710.2311A19999@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:59:31 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 55840d0a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-fmhrcfncexvxjktdlycblxlzzc Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i did that about a year ago -- p9 and linux on identical hardware. i think i did post the results here.. i still have kept a powerpoint presentation that should have them mentioned too, i can put it somewhere on the web if you want.. in short, p9 was lagging insignificantly (something like 2 seconds out of 60) for pov-ray image rendering (no IO).. for dna sequence matching (fasta algorithm) it was slower, but i contribute that to the overall unoptimized IO of the system (i may be wrong)... compile time was hands down a p9 win... andrey ps: it is possible to set-up a p9/linux shootout here, but i'm not sure whether we may do so :) --upas-fmhrcfncexvxjktdlycblxlzzc Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from acl.lanl.gov ([128.165.147.1]) by acl.lanl.gov; Mon Feb 25 07:41:15 MST 2002 Received: (qmail 2108822 invoked by uid 18927); 25 Feb 2002 07:41:15 -0700 Delivered-To: andrey@acl.lanl.gov Received: (qmail 2087527 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2002 07:40:18 -0700 Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov (128.165.3.1) by acl.lanl.gov with SMTP; 25 Feb 2002 07:40:18 -0700 Received: from mailproxy1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay3.lanl.gov (8.11.6/8.11.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id g1PEeIv16815; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:40:18 -0700 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mailproxy1.lanl.gov (8.11.6/8.11.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id g1PEft228408; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:41:55 -0700 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.20.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 5727519A08; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:40:09 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com (plan9.bell-labs.com [204.178.31.2]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id 970D219980 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:39:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <71f9dbfbfc8fadc420ee2b20663fb731@plan9.bell-labs.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9 From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Help: List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:39:17 -0500 By the way, if someone out there has Linux and Plan 9 running on the same hardware, I would be genuinely interested in seeing an good comparison of run-time and code quality. Thanks. I didn't define 'dramatically' in my last message because a) there were two different machines involved and b) the header files involved were quite different. (But it was _dramatic_, and the Plan 9 machine is much slower.) -rob --upas-fmhrcfncexvxjktdlycblxlzzc--