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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?
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On Nov 25, 2014, at 1:59 , Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> 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.

> If you use TCP you benefit from its near universality, dealing
> with long fat pipes, bandwidth adjustment, selective ack etc.

Those are all valid reasons to have a tcp/ip stack. But what I (and I =
believe Erik) say is that there's cases where that doesn't matter, and =
it would be nice to have an alternative in those cases. I no that IL =
makes a noticeable (if tiny) difference on my local network; I bet nonet =
would be a marginally greater difference.