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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Distributed Pipelines
Date: Mon,  3 May 2010 13:22:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u2wdd6fe68a1005031322oc2b72652v5aa0d1fdc0357665@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005032010.27555.0intro@gmail.com>

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:10 AM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it mean IL has performance issue on long-distance networks?
>
> As I understand it, the real problem is that Internet
> doesn't handle IL well.

They are both problems.  Routing issues aside,
IL is particularly bad on asymmetric networks like
cable modems (download much faster than upload).

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-03 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-25 23:56 Akshat Kumar
2010-04-26  0:40 ` Steve Simon
2010-04-26  0:50   ` Akshat Kumar
2010-04-26  5:45     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-04-26  7:33       ` Akshat Kumar
2010-04-26  7:55         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-04-26 20:00           ` Akshat Kumar
2010-04-26 21:20             ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-26 21:57               ` Akshat Kumar
2010-04-26 22:17                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-27  8:48                   ` Derek Fawcus
2010-04-27  4:29             ` Tim Newsham
2010-04-27  4:31               ` lucio
2010-04-27 12:04                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-27 12:46               ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-01 18:51                 ` Ryousei Takano
2010-05-01 19:40                   ` David du Colombier
2010-05-03  3:19                     ` Ryousei Takano
2010-05-03 18:10                       ` David du Colombier
2010-05-03 20:22                         ` Russ Cox [this message]
2010-05-04 15:46                           ` Jorden M
2010-05-04 17:44                             ` ron minnich
2010-05-04 18:16                               ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-04 18:36                                 ` ron minnich
2010-05-04 18:50                                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-04 19:51                                   ` Russ Cox
2010-05-04 19:59                                     ` erik quanstrom

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