From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <20030206201354.8681.qmail@mail.dirac.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC3.0 [Was; Webbrowser]
From: Keith Nash <kjn9@citizenearth.com>
Date: Thu,  6 Feb 2003 20:13:54 +0000
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> 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.