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From: quanstro@labs.coraid.com (erik quanstrom)
Date: Sun,  3 Apr 2011 17:24:05 -0400
Subject: [9fans] Go Plan 9
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> The reason it doesn't work on 9vx is because the 32 bit Go runtime
> reserves a large chunk of address space (currently 768mb).  On all
> other platforms, this is accomplised with an mmap equivalient, which
> we all know won't work on Plan 9.
> 

if i read the thread on this topic correctly, this reservation
isn't necessary on plan 9, since there are no shared libraries
and the heap will always be contiguous.

if there is a way to override this for plan 9, we probablly should.

- erik