From: Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] extensions of "interest"
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:20:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a3ae47e0904091620u50fce1e9j37090b06da8eb5a9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090409230615.9F7785B12@mail.bitblocks.com>
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately we don't have exact analogs in s/w. We can
> only simplicate; we can't add lightness!
In manufacturing, I'd suppose lighter materials are harder to make and
use, kind of like using low level languages for components. Standard
optimization techique, replace measurably slow (heavy) components by
something implemented closer (lighter) to the machine.
Robby
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 17:17 ron minnich
2009-04-09 17:25 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:34 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 17:40 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 17:48 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 17:58 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 17:59 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 18:06 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-04-09 21:25 ` Steve Simon
2009-04-09 21:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 21:31 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-09 22:30 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-04-09 22:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-10 12:40 ` John P. Cummings
2009-04-09 23:06 ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-09 23:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-10 5:16 ` lucio
2009-04-11 23:34 ` Russ Cox
2009-04-12 2:42 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-04-12 4:53 ` lucio
2009-04-14 0:03 ` dave.l
2009-04-09 23:10 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-04-10 5:05 ` Bakul Shah
2009-04-09 23:20 ` Robert Raschke [this message]
2009-04-09 19:05 ` maht
2009-04-09 19:16 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 19:22 ` erik quanstrom
2009-04-09 19:40 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-04-09 19:43 ` Mechiel Lukkien
2009-04-10 1:35 ` LiteStar numnums
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