From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:01:03 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <2b76e7f034eb7dc5aab2748c3e6d7222@terzarima.net> Message-ID: References: <2b76e7f034eb7dc5aab2748c3e6d7222@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15eab0aa-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Charles Forsyth wrote: > but if an application trying to use it to access `packed' protocol headers, > that's hardly going to help performance, so that rationale for > having it at all, which i think was one mentioned earlier (i think with xen), > is hardly a compelling one! I am not sure the rationale was performance. I actually don't know what the rationale was, I never followed it up. I plan to. ron