Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com> once said: > is anyone else seeing similar results for cmd/pack? > > % go test > PASS > ok cmd/pack 172.505s > > this is on an atom (d525 @ 1.8ghz, 4gb). same test on an arm (quad core a9 > @ 1.7ghz, 2gb, linux 3.8) takes much less time: > > % go test > PASS > ok cmd/pack 20.872s
Your numbers don't look entirely abnormal. That test issues over a million small writes. (Although it really should be using bufio). How is your system set up? Are you getting your fs from the network? The Plan 9 disk file systems are pretty slow even when used locally. Anthony