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From: Lorenzo Bolla <lbolla@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] plan9port tools speed
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:36:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80c99e790907240136p46bcf8ebn6232bbd85f25d21c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi all,

I've just installed the plan9port as described here (
http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/install.html) on a debian box.
I was comparing the speed of some commands between the plan9 and the GNU
version, and I get consistently poorer results for the plan9 ones.
'grep' for example, is at least twice as slow as its GNU counterpart.

Moreover, the executables in plan9/bin are bigger. Again, plan9's 'grep' is
40% bigger:
$ ll /bin/grep /usr/local/plan9/bin/grep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100500 2009-03-28 22:06 /bin/grep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 141512 2009-07-24 09:06 /usr/local/plan9/bin/grep

Is it expected? Why? Should I re-compile the plan9port with some
optimization switches? How?

Thanks!
L.

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24  8:36 Lorenzo Bolla [this message]
2009-07-24  9:08 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-24 10:11   ` Rodolfo (kix)
2009-07-24 10:38     ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-24 10:17 ` Uriel
2009-07-24 10:42   ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-24 13:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-25  9:30   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-25 13:40     ` erik quanstrom

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