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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  3 Feb 2009 12:01:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Pegasus 2.6 is released
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> One thing I've learned: some people will take a hit of a factor of
> 1000 in performance to preserve their concept of what is easy to use.
> Hence things like scipy. It works well for many people.

thanks for the reference.

this is an interesting problem.  most of the time a 1000x hit is
a great deal in the interest of simplicity.  the trick is finding
the problems you're willing to pay for.

to the original complaint about gnome and its ilk:
i don't see the argument against using file servers (rpc) instead
of shared libraries (creating a super-secret wormhole world).
it's not like the ftp/http transfers aren't all of the slowness,
at least to a first-order approximation.

- erik