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Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 13:02:17 +0300
From: jamos@oboj.net
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Subject: Plan 9 buffered IO vs APE stdio in netsurf
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X-Bullshit: table persistence event-oriented pipelining interface 

Folks, I have made experiments using plan 9 buffered IO (bio) for the 
logger in netsurf, in place of the standard APE stdio logging. If run in 
verbose mode (-v) directing stderr to a separate window, my time from 
start to a loaded welcome screen is down by 50% (from 2 sec to 1 sec) if 
I run locally on my laptop. If I run over my WAN link, the startup time 
is almost 10 times lower (from 6 min to 38 sec). The downside is that it 
induces changes to an otherwise working upstream file 
(nsport/netsurf/utils/log.c).

Is it worth it? I very much like bio speed, but am trying to patch the 
upstream source as little as possible.

Jonas