From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48854de3f44e3ceec8d581383a357543@9netics.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Why are some apps so slow? Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:54:16 -0700 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: <7d3530220609212231g4110c06ev96875a43c13ce968@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf263a24-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 where are the images stored? > Hi everybody, hope this message doesn't come out like a troll. > I'm just wondering why some Plan 9 programs seem to act so slowly. > Acme news is incredibly sluggish, and page takes far longer to display > an image or a doc page than it has any right to. Admittedly, this is > running on a PII machine, but even on one of those, I expect better > performance. Hell, my 486 was better at displaying images.