From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme + mh
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:29:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E58D34.4000302@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E4291D.7070608@9netics.com>
Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> this made me think. Is anyone working on a webmail interface? I
> looked at squirrelmail, but it's in php.
oh, boy, it is SLOW. You can get gray hairs just reading mail in
squirrelmail.
it's weird, our machines, and networks, and servers, and just about
every measure, are at least 100x, and sometimes 1000x, faster than they
used to be just 10 years ago. But the software is getting SLOWER. Now
there's a magic trick. (oh well, that rant has already been visited by
ousterhout, 10 years ago, when ... never mind).
"No matter how fast I make the hardware, the software guys piss it away"
-- famous superomputer designer.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-05 5:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-04 2:59 Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-04 3:14 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-04 5:00 ` Rob Pike
2006-02-04 5:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-04 5:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-06 20:44 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-04 22:31 ` David Leimbach
2006-02-04 4:10 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-05 5:29 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-02-05 5:54 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 6:00 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-05 6:41 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 7:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-05 15:47 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-05 15:58 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 9:16 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-05 16:01 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-05 18:46 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-07 11:28 ` John Stalker
2006-02-07 13:47 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-07 15:43 ` Richard Bilson
2006-02-07 15:54 ` Brantley Coile
2006-02-07 16:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-02-07 22:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-07 22:48 ` Brantley Coile
2006-02-07 22:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-10 19:45 ` rog
2006-02-06 11:18 ` Enrique Soriano
2006-02-06 16:21 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-06 16:42 ` uriel
2006-02-06 17:00 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-06 19:43 ` Joel Salomon
2006-02-06 19:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-07 2:26 ` geoff
2006-02-05 14:46 ` Jason Gurtz
2006-02-05 18:14 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-04 4:16 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-04 4:29 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-02-04 16:11 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-02-04 16:57 ` uriel
2006-02-04 20:17 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-04 20:34 ` uriel
2006-02-04 20:50 ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-02-05 5:31 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-04 9:31 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-04 17:48 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-04 22:35 ` David Leimbach
2006-02-04 23:41 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-05 0:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-04 14:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-06 16:30 ` Tim Wiess
2006-02-06 16:42 ` Gabriel Ivanes
2006-02-04 15:35 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-04 3:29 erik quanstrom
2006-02-04 3:49 quanstro
2006-02-04 4:25 quanstro
2006-02-05 0:47 quanstro
2006-02-05 5:06 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 17:56 ` Micah Stetson
2006-02-05 18:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 18:20 ` ems
2006-02-05 18:23 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 18:33 ` ems
2006-02-05 18:36 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-07 1:02 quanstro
2006-02-10 19:39 ` rog
2006-02-07 1:05 quanstro
2006-02-07 6:04 ` Tim Wiess
2006-02-08 2:04 quanstro
2006-02-08 4:52 ` Tim Wiess
2006-02-08 12:06 quanstro
2006-02-10 19:47 quanstro
2006-02-11 16:51 quanstro
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