From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:31:16 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080301144513.GA4287@gluon> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6b16eee0-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:02 AM, wrote: > > Graphics, networking and multithreading are much bigger issues to > resolve. So your bittorrent client may be difficult to port and damn > easy to redevelop. Any chance you may give it a try? > Networking and multithreading are going to be more important than graphics to us -- but as you said earlier, one step at a time. We'll be working towards this stuff as well as part of the FastOS program so hopefully we'll be able to help provide some of these pieces. IBM has already done a good amount w.r.t. supporting POSIX networking APIs using Inferno devip as a backend, I imagine we can apply many of these techniques to APE or other accomodation platforms. -eric