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Yea it was, it was designed for extremely resource constrained environments from the turn of the 90s. 9p is an incredibly efficient wire protocol.
by zanny 12y ago
Yea it was, it was designed for extremely resource constrained environments from the turn of the 90s. 9p is an incredibly efficient wire protocol.
- jff 12y agoIt's an incredibly slow wire protocol if there's any latency involved. Copying a large file from Bell Labs' servers to my California-based system via 9P took an order of magnitude longer than using HTTP between the same systems. Unfortunately that's kind of baked into the design of 9P.