From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:36:41 +0100 Message-ID: <80c99e790907240136p46bcf8ebn6232bbd85f25d21c@mail.gmail.com> From: Lorenzo Bolla To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636832072e88e9c046f6f80e1 Subject: [9fans] plan9port tools speed Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2be892a8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001636832072e88e9c046f6f80e1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --001636832072e88e9c046f6f80e1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 th= e speed of some commands between the plan9 and the GNU version, and I get c= onsistently poorer results for the plan9 ones.
'grep' for example, is at least twice as slow as its GNU counterpar= t.

Moreover, the executables in plan9/bin are bigger. Again, plan9&#= 39;s 'grep' is 40% bigger:
$ ll /bin/grep /usr/local/plan9/bin/g= rep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100500 2009-03-28 22:06 /bin/grep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ro= ot root 141512 2009-07-24 09:06 /usr/local/plan9/bin/grep

Is it expe= cted? Why? Should I re-compile the plan9port with some optimization switche= s? How?

Thanks!
L.
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