From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:05:11 -0600
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>,
	"Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
From: "EBo" <ebo@sandien.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple experiment
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Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> said:

> > We did a simple experiment recently: added a new 9p type called
> > Tstream, because this issue of streams vs. transactions has been
> > bugging me for years. The semantics are simple: it's a lot like Tread
> > (almost same packet) but a single Tstream results in any number of
> > Rstreams, until you hit no more data (/dev/mouse) or maybe EOF
> > (/usr/rminnich/movie). Andrey tossed a sample implementation into
> > newsham's 9p library. We  saw a 27x improvement in performance from
> > calgary to sandia for a big file. Fcp did not come close.
>
> That's similar to a Tget in op with unlimited replies. The difference adds on
> quickly.

cool.  Is Tstream integrated back into 9p and publicly available?

Also, where can i find out more info about op and Tget?


  Thanks and best regards,

  EBo --