From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 03:19:32 +0100 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bb70882e1b06a04f8b1e014 Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile Topicbox-Message-UUID: de6a7bfa-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7bb70882e1b06a04f8b1e014 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 6 May 2014 03:13, yan cui wrote: > Instead of digging much into the kernel code, I post the question here. > Does the speed come from its good design or insufficient kernel support? it's a bit of both: the compiler suite is much faster; the kernel source is less than the size of their include files; old drivers and obsolete code is eventually discarded; and it would be fair to say that device support is more limited, certainly compared to Linux. --047d7bb70882e1b06a04f8b1e014 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

= On 6 May 2014 03:13, yan cui <ccuiyyan@gmail.com> wrote:
Instead of digging much into the kernel code, I post the question here. Do= es the speed come from its good design or insufficient kernel support?

it's a bit of both: the compiler suite is much faster= ; the kernel source is less than the size of their include files; old drive= rs and obsolete code is eventually discarded; and it would be fair to say t= hat device support is more limited, certainly compared to Linux.
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