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.