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From: Oleksandr Iakovliev <yshurik@lynxline.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile
Date: Tue,  6 May 2014 17:48:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53690437.7070900@lynxline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEAzY39X6d9xS28rb2uTSgq+B9_AmvkDoPz9q7Cz2=HZAdJg=A@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/06/2014 05:24 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote:
> The question is not why does Plan 9 compile so quickly, is what
> catastrophe happened in Unix making everything so slow and large.

Well, you know there is a lot of noise for linux kernel about keeping it
compatible for even very old versions of apps binaries, while in
reality, linux apps binaries are very rare to be executed even from one
distro to another...

Same story that happens to ms to keep compatibility for dos, then for
first win apis, then for second, then oops 640KB is not enough ;)



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06  2:13 yan cui
2014-05-06  2:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  2:35   ` yan cui
2014-05-06  2:48     ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06  8:02   ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  8:38     ` arnold
2014-05-06  8:49       ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  8:54         ` arnold
2014-05-06 13:34       ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06  9:39     ` tlaronde
2014-05-06  9:52       ` tlaronde
2014-05-06 10:02         ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 13:35           ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 15:24             ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-05-06 15:48               ` Oleksandr Iakovliev [this message]
2014-05-06 15:53                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 17:39                   ` cinap_lenrek
2014-05-06 15:51             ` Anthony Sorace

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