Re: [9fans] slow performance

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

On Sat Mar 31 19:35:39 EDT 2007, ph.rpguo@gmail.com wrote:

> So, plan 9 wasnt made for, hmm, heavy computing tasks, like 2 milions of
> calls of recursive functions
> working with some complex data structure (not my data structure, hehe), or
> something like that?

rather, when there was a conflict between squeezing every last cycle
out of the machine or simplicity, the designers of plan 9 generally
opted for simplicity.  when there was a conflict between generality
and performance, the bias was toward generality.

the beauty of plan 9 is sum of these well-thought-out choices.
as you point out, these choices are always worth revisiting.
they seem to be working well for the time being.

btw, plan 9 is perfectly well-suited to your examples.

- erik