From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 11:52:49 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20140506095249.GA749@polynum.com> References: <20140506093903.GA483@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140506093903.GA483@polynum.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile Topicbox-Message-UUID: ded5d3fa-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:39:03AM +0200, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: > > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:02:21AM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > On 6 May 2014 03:19, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > > > Of course, that's balanced > > by browsers now easily rivalling the kernels you mention for complexity and > > certainly size, with their brutalist programming architectures. > > And it is even not a problem reserved to Plan9. To explain in my answer the link with the Plan9: browsers are so huge beast nowadays, that the lack of a "modern" browser on Plan9 will rapidly become a problem for others than Plan9 since these things are so huge and complex and need so many pieces than even on Unix like systems, one may not be even able to link the thing. -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.renaissance-francaise.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C