Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

[maht]

9p is efficient as long as your latency is <30ms
  
What kind of latency?

For speed of light in fibre optic 30ms is about 8000km (New York to San 
Francisco and back)

in that 30ms a 3.2Ghz P4 could do 292 million instructions

There's an interesting article about it in acmq queue20090203-dl.pdf    
- Fighting Physics : A Tough Battle

http://www.maht0x0r.net/library/computing/acm/queue20090203-dl.pdf