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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why are some apps so slow?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:49:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d45ce156dd030958bc40b2d56e9f44be@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530220609212231g4110c06ev96875a43c13ce968@mail.gmail.com>

Now that you've completed STEP 1 - ask if anyone knows the
answer - on to STEP 2 - use the tools you have been given to find
out for yourself.

On Fri Sep 22 01:34:39 EDT 2006, slawmaster@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everybody, hope this message doesn't come out like a troll.
> I'm just wondering why some Plan 9 programs seem to act so slowly.
> Acme news is incredibly sluggish, and page takes far longer to display
> an image or a doc page than it has any right to. Admittedly, this is
> running on a PII machine, but even on one of those, I expect better
> performance. Hell, my 486 was better at displaying images.
> 
> John
> -- 
> "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-22 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-22  5:31 John Floren
2006-09-22  5:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-09-22  6:08 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2006-09-22 11:43 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 13:49 ` jmk [this message]
2006-09-22 15:02   ` C H Forsyth
2006-09-22 20:21   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-09-23 13:32     ` Russ Cox
2006-09-23 13:47       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-09-23 14:55         ` Russ Cox
2006-09-23 15:00           ` Francisco J Ballesteros

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