From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] The new ridiculous license In-Reply-To: <200306181445.h5IEjU506393@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:48:24 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cebbd42c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Dan Cross wrote: > If the BSD Unix crowd put as much effort into writing their own > compilers as they put into the sort of posturing we saw yesterday, > they'd have had their own compilers years ago. Why is it strictly > necessary to use the Plan 9 compilers? Why not just write your own? > It shouldn't take more than a couple months of work, really. > They want to use the Plan 9 compilers because they're better, of course :) That settled, I would definitely like to see a more widespread adoption of the Plan 9 compilers -- if nothing else, simply because it'll make me feel like this operating system is going somewhere and not hitting a dead end (not that I'm implying this). Wouldn't you like to see those pesky 20% lack of speed (in the binary, not in compilation) disappear? Presumably that's what the BSD people mean by 'improvement'. andrey