On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:51 AM, hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote:

> HTTP is technically different and not easily comparable to 9p. HTTP is
> not a good example of how to do things, but over high-latency links 9p
> is much slower for getting files.
>
> HTTP tries to be stateless as well.  Hence REST.  9p is a fairly stateful
protocol.
... but then so is NFSv4, and 9p remains simpler.

There's also pi-P documented somewhere that takes the ideas of 9p and makes
them more applicable to the space where http is interesting, as well as
others.

Dave