In article <20110218194658.8bea75...@mail.bitblocks.com>, Bakul Shah <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com> wrote: >It is the other way around. 9p can't handle latency so on >high latency pipes programs using 9p won't be as fast as >programs using streaming (instead of rpc). Granted that there >are many other factors when it comes to hg & replica but >latency is a major one. > >> similarly, you blame c++ compilers for excessive inlining. > >I am suggesting modern compilers should ignore the inline >keyword and be cache aware. For the same reason as why the >register keyword is mostly ignored. People are wont to use >inlining in the hope of improving performance (just as they >used register). Sometime it is better to fix a program than >try educating the hordes.
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