From: Keith Nash <kjn9@citizenearth.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC3.0 [Was; Webbrowser]
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 20:13:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030206201354.8681.qmail@mail.dirac.net> (raw)
> I wouldnt worry about the 10% performance difference between Plan 9
> implementation and FreeBSD or Linux. What matters is whether we can
> tolerate the performance loss. As long as my apps like acme, sam, charon,
> etc run sufficiently fast, why would I worry?
> > We know Plan 9 has the better design, code, capabilities, etc. It would
> > be nice at some point to be able to say that speed is a distinguishing
> > feature of Plan 9. Is it fundamentally impossible?
This is an important issue if we want Plan 9 to be more widely deployed. I guess that not many users care about 10% differences in performance - but if Plan 9 is (say) three times slower than Unix, its user base will always be limited.
next reply other threads:[~2003-02-06 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-06 20:13 Keith Nash [this message]
2003-02-06 21:29 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2003-02-06 21:33 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-06 21:40 ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-07 8:44 ` Richard Miller
2003-02-07 13:51 ` matt
2003-02-07 14:03 ` Boyd Roberts
2003-02-07 0:06 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-07 5:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-07 1:46 okamoto
2003-02-06 17:50 C H Forsyth
2003-02-06 18:08 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-06 5:28 okamoto
2003-02-06 5:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-06 15:15 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-06 15:39 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2003-02-06 15:45 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-06 16:31 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-02-06 16:36 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-02-06 16:56 ` matt
2003-02-06 17:11 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-06 17:25 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2003-02-06 17:32 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-06 17:44 ` Sam
2003-02-06 18:07 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-06 18:14 ` David Presotto
2003-02-06 18:17 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-06 20:36 ` Dean Prichard
2003-02-06 18:35 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-06 18:43 ` David Presotto
2003-02-06 19:12 ` David Presotto
2003-02-06 19:20 ` Scott Schwartz
2003-02-06 17:23 ` David Butler
2003-02-06 1:19 [9fans] Webbrowser Russ Cox
2003-02-06 3:00 ` [9fans] GCC3.0 [Was; Webbrowser] andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-06 4:16 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-06 14:24 ` David Presotto
2003-02-06 15:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-06 17:32 ` David Presotto
2003-02-06 18:10 ` William K. Josephson
2003-02-06 18:16 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-06 18:23 ` William K. Josephson
2003-02-06 21:09 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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