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From: jmk@pla...
Subject: Why are some apps so slow?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:49:38 -0400

Now that you've completed STEP 1 - ask if anyone knows the
answer - on to STEP 2 - use the tools you have been given to find
out for yourself.

On Fri Sep 22 01:34:39 EDT 2006, slawmaster@gma... 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.
> 
> John
> -- 
> "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, Henry VI