From: Chris Siebenmann <cks>
To: rc
Subject: Re: Interesting things from the Plan 9 rc manpage
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 22:39:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92Oct27.224004est.2795@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: haahr's message of Tue, 27 Oct 92 22:14:33 -0500. <9210280314.AA12298@utopia.mv.us.adobe.com>
Since Plan 9 implements the environment as a filesystem (a single
directory) it wouldn't surprise me if it takes a while to fire up
an rc if you have lots of functions or environment variables. When
I saw Pike demonstrating 8 1/2 (and when I saw it running on a
386 portable), I don't think window creation took that long, although
8 1/2 can hide shell startup delay if it wants to be clever.
The Labs style seems to tend towards a certain sparseness of
environment, so it may have been considered OK by most people.
- cks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1992-10-28 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-10-28 3:14 Paul Haahr
1992-10-28 3:39 ` Chris Siebenmann [this message]
1992-10-28 4:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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1992-10-28 15:27 Paul Haahr
1992-10-28 5:10 Chris Siebenmann
1992-10-28 4:07 Paul Haahr
1992-10-28 4:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
1992-10-28 4:27 ` Chris Siebenmann
1992-10-28 1:17 Byron Rakitzis
1992-10-28 1:57 ` noel
1992-10-28 1:59 ` noel
1992-10-28 5:59 ` James Matthew Farrow
1992-10-27 10:52 Chris Siebenmann
1992-10-27 16:08 ` Scott Schwartz
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