From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9bf780e655be8002acbaa753cadfcae2@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 10:22:27 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] slow performance In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3a3da8fa-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >But two guys have answer that it can be compiler optimation. no: i said `it requires investigation'. several others seemed to be `speculating ahead of the data'. in fact, without asking for data of any sort. no: must be those compilers. indeed, given the little data we had (binary trees and thus [probably] recursive calls) i was hinting that it was UNLIKELY to be compiler related, and the factor of 10 was likely to be significant, but i still wanted the data. but instead, someone grabs that off-hand remark and runs with it: >So, plan 9 wasnt made for, hmm, heavy computing tasks, like 2 milions of calls of recursive functions >working with some complex data structure (not my data structure, hehe), or something like that? back to work...