From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <49ECAE5E.6070200@proweb.co.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:18:22 +0100 From: maht User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <3e1162e60904190826w1ff0d7e5ua5456981be9719cc@mail.gmail.com> <5d375e920904200758m1a1a96den579673e107b57b19@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5d375e920904200758m1a1a96den579673e107b57b19@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Topicbox-Message-UUID: eadab8d6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > 9p is efficient as long as your latency is <30ms > What kind of latency? For speed of light in fibre optic 30ms is about 8000km (New York to San Francisco and back) in that 30ms a 3.2Ghz P4 could do 292 million instructions There's an interesting article about it in acmq queue20090203-dl.pdf - Fighting Physics : A Tough Battle http://www.maht0x0r.net/library/computing/acm/queue20090203-dl.pdf