Re: [9fans] ports performance

[Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>]

It is in fact getpwuid and getgrgid that are taking
the time, not the extra stat calls.  (Quite stupid
given that I'm asking the same questions over
and over again -- you'd think the routines would
not need to work so hard the second time!)

I just checked into CVS a version of _p9dir that
caches the last uid and gid it looked up.  This
should speed up the overwhelming majority of
cases.  I built a new tarball too, since there have
been a handful of other minor changes.

In response to the utility comment, if you don't
want Plan 9's ls, you can put /bin in your path
before /usr/local/plan9/bin, and never worry
again.  Personally, I like the fact that Plan 9's
ls -l is more compact on the screen, that it does
quoting of special names for me, and that I don't
have to learn the differences between all the 
different ls commands on the various Unixes
I have to use.  Ditto (even more so) for ps.

Russ