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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:45:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimGmndWtUuzTSMCjgtNWkEQ30mvN3-fOMHavfdr@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinO4jAj+T6A31r+fhWHoF6Nq6G=JLQQZuOysjae@mail.gmail.com>

getting it right:

- less code in plan 9 than in most configure scripts (hard to believe but true)
- plan 9 memory management code is 1 file, linux is 55
- almost no assembly in plan 9 ; # lines  assembly is GROWING in linux
- growth of linux code size is exponential (this is part of the
getting it right issue)

it's always good to have a system that gets closer to getting it right
around, as a reminder if nothing else.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11  9:05 Mark Carter
2010-10-11 10:23 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2010-10-11 11:07 ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:17   ` Robert Raschke
2010-10-11 11:53     ` Nick LaForge
2010-10-11 13:39       ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-11 14:45         ` ron minnich [this message]
2010-10-11 15:01         ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-10-12  8:33       ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-12  8:51         ` Max E
2010-10-12 14:47           ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12 11:25         ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 12:24         ` Jacob Todd
2010-10-12 16:04         ` Aleksandar Kuktin
2010-10-11 18:43     ` Brian L. Stuart
2010-10-12  8:17       ` Anssi Porttikivi
2010-10-12 14:09         ` Mark Carter
2010-10-12 14:53           ` Steve Simon
2010-10-12 14:59             ` David Leimbach
2010-10-12  9:06 ` Max E
2010-10-12  9:29   ` yy

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