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Subject: Re: [9fans] ports performance 
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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Thu,  8 Apr 2004 15:07:02 -0400
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| because of the way ls works on plan 9, a simple port to unix makes
| every ls as expensive as ls -l.

Of course, and I expected that, but I'm seeing something much slower, like
several minutes for "ls -l /usr/bin /usr/bin /usr/bin /usr/bin /usr/bin".