On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > measurement is hard. Let's go write drivers -- Malibu Barbie. > > > > Good Idea. > > I don't give a flying f**k how slow it is: it's still a million times > better than (random other OS) -- Malibu Dave. > > Seriously: what's the point? > > Even if you "prove" that plan9 is "faster" than brandX, > it still won't have a word processor, spreadsheet, DBMS, shared objects, > eyecandy, jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c > and whatever else is "vital" if an OS is to "succeed" in the "real world". >
Actually, in Real Computing, aka "not on your desktop", some groups such as, oh, IBM and the US Government (you may have heard of them) care about how fast a OS can perform in this kind of thing. They don't care about word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers, any of the stuff Joe Windowsuser will bitch about; what they really want is fast execution of parallel programs... and probably FORTRAN 77. John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
