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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)
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erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> once said:
> > 2. Use of Go's libbio, rather than Plan 9's. Alternatively libbio on Plan 9
> > can be changed. It's not clear to me why this would be a bad thing.
>
> i object to the macros they have been adding.  they haven't been included
> in p9p, either.  adding B(put|get)(le|be)(Biobufhdr *b, int width) might
> be an interesting convienence, but what they've got for the sake of 1% on
> micro benchmarks seems to run counter to the plan 9 culture to me.

The claim was a bit stronger than that:

    https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=1ee3ab13e3b6

but I still agree with you.

  Anthony