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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:26:04 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?
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On Tue Nov 25 08:52:33 EST 2014, a@9srv.net wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2014, at 1:59 , Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
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> > As long as you run IP, you pay the other costs for any protocol.
>
> But there's plenty of cases where you don't need even that. See AOE, or nonet from very early Plan 9. I'd like that back.

and in any event, processor cycles are (relatively) not important.  synchronization latency
and memory latency dominate.  there's more of that for tcp, and it's not accounted for.

- erik