thanks; i should have checked that. running it on the fossil+venti server
brings it down a bit. still, it's not stellar.

bootes% go test
PASS
ok   cmd/pack 81.480s
bootes% go test
PASS
ok   cmd/pack 79.719s



On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:

> Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> once said:
> > is anyone else seeing similar results for cmd/pack?
> >
> > % go test
> > PASS
> > ok   cmd/pack 172.505s
> >
> > this is on an atom (d525 @ 1.8ghz, 4gb). same test on an arm (quad core
> a9
> > @ 1.7ghz, 2gb, linux 3.8) takes much less time:
> >
> > % go test
> > PASS
> > ok      cmd/pack    20.872s
>
> Your numbers don't look entirely abnormal. That test issues
> over a million small writes. (Although it really should be
> using bufio).
>
> How is your system set up? Are you getting your fs from
> the network? The Plan 9 disk file systems are pretty slow
> even when used locally.
>
>   Anthony
>
>