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From: Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam@gma...>
Subject: Why are some apps so slow?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:08:39 +0200

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:31:12AM -0400, John Floren wrote:
> Hi everybody, hope this message doesn't come out like a troll.
> I'm just wondering why some Plan 9 programs seem to act so slowly.
> Acme news is incredibly sluggish, and page takes far longer to display
> an image or a doc page than it has any right to. Admittedly, this is
> running on a PII machine, but even on one of those, I expect better
> performance. Hell, my 486 was better at displaying images.

This depends on the OS you used on this 486 box and how this OS
has been designed (maybe it wasn't intended to be a distributed
OS).

Regards,
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