From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:34:29 -0500 To: skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <24033ec46b71227ba1f102a63814b5df@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8e2cf906-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Dec 2 14:13:51 EST 2013, skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com wrote: > Please explain this assertion (e.g. TSEMACQUIRE contradicts it). > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:25 AM, wrote: > > > > This current situation is not insurmountable; it seems that we have > > enough > > > people who are interested and a handful who are contributors that we can > > > make this happen with some coordination. > > > > We will almost certainly need more focus from Bell Labs or at least > > less reluctance. More than ever, they hold the fate of Plan 9 in > > their hands and it may be necessary to snatch it from their grasp. i don't think that's a contradiction. it's a datapoint. a generalization can't be made without a number of datapoints. the generalization isn't useful though. let's have a list of things that need doing on the plan 9 side, and let's see if those demands on the system are really reasonable. i'm committed to supporting go in 9atom to the extent that it does not compromise or corrupt the system substantially. - erik