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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:11:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9,
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> I know we're fond of bashing people who need to eek performance out of
> systems, and a lot of time it's all in good fun. There's little
> justification for getpid, but getpid isn't the only implementor of
> this functionality. For other interfaces, it definitely makes sense to
> speed up the system to speed up applications. Argue about it all you
> want, but without this sort of mentality, we also wouldn't have
> non-blocking I/O or kernel thread support.

define "we".  there's no non-blocking io in plan 9.

- erik