From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 and Inferno and the JS VM
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:08:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201117170816.GA137@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSF3XNjnMkFxHaGZi3ayOqpBA=ktTTO3pQDV24i=fV-Xg-DEg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 04:35:23PM +0100, hiro wrote:
> i'm slightly disappointed that you're booting alpine and not plan9 in there
>
"I" am not booting anything: I'm riding piggy-back on JSLinux: I just
added kerTeX on top of this and, FWIW, the union of the filesystems is
done with the 9P protocol (once more: I didn't make it: it is the way
the whole thing has been made by Fabrice Bellard.
> my biggest gripe: the delays - those draws are lagging behind my
> physical mouse by nearly a second. and i'm not too far, it seems we're
> all only 2ms away from the same locations in france. (that's 28ms
> total from here).
>
> i know drawterm to ovh is rather smooth from my location, so might be
> worth trying to optimize the graphics implementation here.
>
> possibly more important for those students: i am unable to resize the
> window with the instructions so i can't see the line-ending.
>
> in comparison to how long it takes to boot in the browser, it might be
> faster to install a VM framework and bootstrap a new VM, though i
> admit that would be including much more manual labour, too.
I must say that I think it is a supplementary, temporary solution.
When I will have finally fix the compilation and installation in MS
Windows, kerTeX will install rapidly on almost anything. So there
shouldn't really be a need, at least for TeX and al.
>
> very entertaining though :D
Yes. But this shows perhaps too why the browsers have become such fat
beasts: if they can even make that...
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-17 14:06 tlaronde
2020-11-17 15:35 ` hiro
2020-11-17 17:08 ` tlaronde [this message]
2020-11-17 15:42 ` Pouya Tafti
2020-11-17 17:09 ` tlaronde
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