On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:15:56PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>i don't understand why ssh "using a seperate protocol" implies that it should
>be significantly faster than 9p.  could you explain why you think this?

I don't know the specifics, but I do know that there is a protocol used 
for HTTP and SSH which are designed to speed up operations on the 
repository. I think it relates to the fact that parsing the FS would 
require many synchronous round-trips which would be faster locally. I 
believe that the paper elaborates.

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