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From: "Aram Hăvărneanu" <aram.h@mgk.ro>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile
Date: Tue,  6 May 2014 17:24:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEAzY39X6d9xS28rb2uTSgq+B9_AmvkDoPz9q7Cz2=HZAdJg=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dfe0889e703911c71acbe09d354869b1@brasstown.quanstro.net>

Plan 9 compilers are fast, Unix compilers are slow. Plan 9 compilers
compile less because the philosophy regarding #include files is
different. Plan 9 programs (including the kernel) are small, Unix
programs are large.

The Plan 9 kernel has less lines of code than Unix configure scripts.
The question is not why does Plan 9 compile so quickly, is what
catastrophe happened in Unix making everything so slow and large.

-- 
Aram Hăvărneanu



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06  2:13 yan cui
2014-05-06  2:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  2:35   ` yan cui
2014-05-06  2:48     ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06  8:02   ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  8:38     ` arnold
2014-05-06  8:49       ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06  8:54         ` arnold
2014-05-06 13:34       ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06  9:39     ` tlaronde
2014-05-06  9:52       ` tlaronde
2014-05-06 10:02         ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 13:35           ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 15:24             ` Aram Hăvărneanu [this message]
2014-05-06 15:48               ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2014-05-06 15:53                 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 17:39                   ` cinap_lenrek
2014-05-06 15:51             ` Anthony Sorace

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