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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:09:44 +0000
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plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu writes:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:29:48AM -0500, rob pike wrote:
> > > I've been playing with GCC 3.0
> > > on Linux, and I'm pretty impressed.
> > 
> > What did you find impressive?
> 
> The way the lights in my house dimmed when compiling hello_world.c.

I thought he meant the way it vastly outperformed puny little toy
compilers like the one in Plan 9.