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Date: Sat,  8 Sep 2007 22:15:18 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The Web9 Project
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> > have you compared its performance to webdav?
>
> I don't have any numbers with me, but I would expect 9P to work
> faster than WebDAV since 9P works one layer below HTTP.
> Implementation details aside, header-overhead in itself makes WebDAV
> a less of a competitor.

Maybe, if you have ridiculously low latency. Which is one of the
reasons I would like to see the latency issues addressed, so 9P
services can work well over non-LAN networks. Maybe we can finally
agree on a solution for this at this year's IWP9?

Best wishes

uriel