Re: [9front] drawterm stuck

[ori@eigenstate.org]

> For such genius and beautiful OS why a slow web server. It kind of doesn’t
> make sense. Let me know if I’m missing something. Even if its file based
> shouldn’t there be some level of speed. Like hash tables seem to be
> extremely fast for lookup. Is it because they wrote httpd in one or two days?

Because it doesn't need to be fast -- at least for what the people using it
seem to need-- and given a choice between "simple, fast enough to do the job",
and "a ton of complexity spent on optimization", the former is almost always
the preference of the plan 9 community.
 
> Would it be better to have httpd dedicated to its own CPU and serve other files
> somewhere else. Serve files on a beefy server. Or am I thinking about that wrong.
> Should httpd be together? How does that work?

Latency hurts 9p. Probably doesn't matter if the file server is nearby, but
you don't want to put it across the internt.

> I realize I have a lot to re-learn about this. But I’m very interested. 
> 
> Surely this should be faster than some python based Django server running gunicorn?

Probably. If you care, should be easy enough to point one of the
many benchamrks out there at it, and see.