From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:39:06 -0400
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> cp is about 60k in plan9 and tar is 80k in plan9. cp on 3 seperate unix
> machines (linux, SCO unix, os-X) in its overcomplicated copying directory
> tree glory is under 30k, on sunOS it happens to be 17k. to tar then untar
> requires two processes using a shared 80k tar, plus some intermediate data
> to archive and process the data, then immediatly reverse this process. cp
> _could_ be written to do all this in 17k but instead our 60k cp cant do
> it, and instead we need two entries in the process table and twice the
> number ofuser space pages.
I'm sorry, but there must be something wrong with my mail reader.  Are we
really arguing about 30k?  Am I dreaming?  Are you trying to run plan9
on a machine with 256k of memory?

...

Sam