Re: [9fans] GCC3.0 [Was; Webbrowser]

["Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Sam wrote:

> I just don't understand what you conceive as "slow."

Well, on Pink, a 1024-node cluster we just built here, I can fire up a
command to 1024 nodes from start to completion in < 4 seconds, and we
consider that slow. Lest you think this a worthless benchmark I can tell
you that startup overhead matters when scaling to this size system. My
hunch is that Plan 9 would not start up quite this fast. But that is only
based on very limited experience with 'cpu'.

But you are correct in that I am not being specific. Sadly, my impressions
are based on work done here last summer measuring TCP etc., and Andrey
knows way better than I what the outcome of that was.

However that doesn't much matter; what I'm taking from this discussion is
that most Plan 9 users, who are developers not end-users, are satisfied
with the performance of the system as is and see no need to try to make it
competitive with the *nux* breeds. Given the overall far better quality of
Plan 9 as an OS I find that understandable.

That said, I did think David Butler's remarks were pretty interesting.

Thanks

ron
p.s. What I really want to know: is Google going to run Plan 9 :-)