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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:37:17 -0700
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9
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If go install is slow on Plan 9, it's because Plan 9's file system is
slow (which it is and always has been), and because go install does
transitive dependencies correctly, which mk does not.

-rob