Re: [9fans] plan9port tools speed

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

My bet is on file system performance. Where did the data come from?

9vx is also much faster, even if binaries are identical, because
fossil is such a dog.

uriel

P.S.: In my experience with werc ( http://werc.cat-v.org ) statically
linking p9p tools further increases performance considerably, p9p
tools are also insanely faster than gnu tools.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Lorenzo Bolla<lbolla@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just installed the plan9port as described here
> (http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/install.html) on a debian box.
> I was comparing the speed of some commands between the plan9 and the GNU
> version, and I get consistently poorer results for the plan9 ones.
> 'grep' for example, is at least twice as slow as its GNU counterpart.
>
> Moreover, the executables in plan9/bin are bigger. Again, plan9's 'grep' is
> 40% bigger:
> $ ll /bin/grep /usr/local/plan9/bin/grep
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100500 2009-03-28 22:06 /bin/grep
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 141512 2009-07-24 09:06 /usr/local/plan9/bin/grep
>
> Is it expected? Why? Should I re-compile the plan9port with some
> optimization switches? How?
>
> Thanks!
> L.
>