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by f2f 12y ago
> Latency != bandwidth. yes, and you're conflating the two.
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by f2f 12y ago
> Bandwidth is cheap. and the speed of light is constant. http1 has issues accessing all available bandwidth, and speed of light ensures that with a limited bandwidth your page load times will suffer. you don't go to web pages that
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by f2f 12y ago
The most famous recent photo of Dennis Ritchie has him sitting in front of a windows desktop, drawterm-ed almost full screen into a Plan 9 CPU server. (drawterm is the name of the program that allowed you to connect local resources to a CPU
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by f2f 12y ago
heya, maht! nothing you read below will be news to you, but for the record here's what i think: as far as the technical arguments against the Plan 9-descendent tools are concerned, yes, they're outdated. but the lack of cruft accu
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by f2f 12y ago
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me..." -- Grandpa Simpson
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by f2f 12y ago
he's just rage quitting on his last day of work. see the next post on that site, where pike is called a "world-class jackass" and Plan 9 "a colossal failure". referring to anything Plan 9 as "colossal" is
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by f2f 12y ago
plan9 was free software in 2000 when the 3rd release was made available (and before the issues discussed in this article were encountered). this is despite RMS's objections that were parroted by clueless linux fanboys around the net. a
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by f2f 12y ago
> I updated my laptop. I have been running the development > version of FreeBSD for 18 years straight now, and > compiling even my Spartan work environment from source > code takes a full day, because it
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by f2f 12y ago
I took a class by P. Prusinkiewicz (Dr. P) at the University of Calgary as part of my graduate program more than a decade ago. Still remember it fondly and keep all my presentations and slides from the coursework. Unfortunately I don't
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by f2f 12y ago
to see how much the runtime contributes to the size of the binary use an empty main. for hello world you bring in the fmt package which is a relative heavyweight: $ cat > t.go package main func main() {} $ go build t.go
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by f2f 12y ago
plan9 kernel builds take less that 10 seconds.
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by f2f 12y ago
https://code.google.com/p/go9p/
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by f2f 12y ago
there was an x11 port to plan9. it's still there: $ cl -addr sources.cs.bell-labs.com:564 9p> ls -l extra/X11.iso.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- rsc sys 24878378 X11.iso.bz2 9p> that didn't sink plan9. what sank
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by f2f 12y ago
If by "cpu server allocator" you mean cluster/distributed scheduler, no there's no such thing. late in the life of plan9 an attempt was made to craft something like that on top of it but by then both BL and the public ha
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by f2f 12y ago
re2 is described here: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html
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by f2f 12y ago
the internet is my source.
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by f2f 12y ago
C and Java are not the subject here.
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by f2f 12y ago
rust was announced the same week Go was. it took a while to bring to the open, but it got the "swoon" demographic under its wing almost immediately.
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by f2f 12y ago
your "should" and "should" should be replaced with "doesn't" and "doesn't" or at best "may" and "may". more code has been written in Go than Haskell, Rust and Ocaml combi
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by f2f 12y ago
well, rust has all those powerful features. it's been out in the open for exactly as long as Go has.
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by f2f 12y ago
"all goroutines are asleep - deadlock". https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/runtime/proc....
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by f2f 12y ago
but i searched this page and here they are! ;)
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by f2f 12y ago
nice project, and pretty cool visualizations! i did port a lot of the xscreensavers to plan9 and then a few of them to go when go came out. this reminds me a lot of some of them. now if only there was a way to animate them! https:/&#x
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by f2f 12y ago
https://code.google.com/p/ogle/
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by f2f 12y ago
you made my day!
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by f2f 12y ago
troll#, of course ;)
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by f2f 12y ago
i loved plan9. i was into it before the 3rd edition was released and i built a small career out of it. it was and still is the most enjoyable system to work with. i'm happy it's getting its dues in retrospect and is now considered
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by f2f 12y ago
I feel this document really captures the feeling that OS researchers had at the turn of the century: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf On one hand you had Windows NT taking over commercial space, on the other you
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by f2f 12y ago
Not anymore. You're two years out of date
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by f2f 12y ago
DMD isn't faster than the go compiler anymore

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