From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7d3530220804111738v2c3aae2cl44afe70af558fddc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:38:52 -0700 From: "John Floren" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <856eed9746d94fa2d3ab3c25fdf35128@csplan9.rit.edu> <2474f40e0a7a3c3f9a2be81f11138ba7@terzarima.net> <14ec7b180804101405q5f810c3bw2856b3af67ef2bd4@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10804101813n103a5d34r60c391a24c49aee3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] FTQ benchmark available Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8cb1c9d0-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:23 PM, wrote: > > > measurement is hard. Let's go write drivers -- Malibu Barbie. > > > > Good Idea. > > I don't give a flying f**k how slow it is: it's still a million times > better than (random other OS) -- Malibu Dave. > > Seriously: what's the point? > > Even if you "prove" that plan9 is "faster" than brandX, > it still won't have a word processor, spreadsheet, DBMS, shared objects, > eyecandy, jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c > and whatever else is "vital" if an OS is to "succeed" in the "real world". > Actually, in Real Computing, aka "not on your desktop", some groups such as, oh, IBM and the US Government (you may have heard of them) care about how fast a OS can perform in this kind of thing. They don't care about word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers, any of the stuff Joe Windowsuser will bitch about; what they really want is fast execution of parallel programs... and probably FORTRAN 77. John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn