From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:49:38 -0400 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Why are some apps so slow? In-Reply-To: <7d3530220609212231g4110c06ev96875a43c13ce968@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf71a1e4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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