Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-07 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:38:57 PST David Leimbach wrote: > > Things like Clojure, or Scala become a bit more interesting when the VM is > extended to allow tail recursion to happen in a nice way. A lack of TCO is not something that will prevent you from writing many interesting programs (except t

Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Mar 7 01:02:31 EST 2009, j...@eecs.harvard.edu wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:31:59PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > it's interesting to note that the quoted mtbf numbers for ssds is > > within a factor of 2 of enterprise hard drives. if one considers that > > one needs ~4 ssds to c

Re: [9fans] Flash

2009-03-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Mar 7 00:47:33 EST 2009, j...@eecs.harvard.edu wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:19:25AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > Sadly, if a WORM is your only application, then no one cares. > > > At least not enough to pony up for real peformance. The folks > > > > ask not what a technology

Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Mar 7 09:39:38 EST 2009, j...@eecs.harvard.edu wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:58:42AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i think that's why they put them in a 2.5" form factor with a standard > > SATA interface. what are you thinking of? > > No, the reason they do that is for backwards

[9fans] jjm

2009-03-07 Thread Bruce Ellis
found object ... http://www.chunder.com/text/struggle.html

Re: [9fans] Flash

2009-03-07 Thread Russ Cox
> i've been evaluating replacing the worm in the coraid fileserver's > sr15x1 with ssd. so far it looks promising. i don't understand this. your "worm" is magnetic disk, right? why would you put the ssd in the slow half (the worm) instead of the fast half (the cache)? similarly, someone on thi

Re: [9fans] jjm

2009-03-07 Thread Jack Johnson
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > found object ... > > http://www.chunder.com/text/struggle.html Absolutely priceless. The last line is the winner. -J

Re: [9fans] jjm

2009-03-07 Thread Bruce Ellis
All part of the a historical dig for IWP92009-part2. Four speakers if anyone is in Sydney this week. brucee On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Jack Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: >> found object ... >> >> http://www.chunder.com/text/struggle.html > > Absolutely

Re: [9fans] Flash

2009-03-07 Thread erik quanstrom
> i don't understand this. your "worm" is magnetic disk, right? > why would you put the ssd in the slow half (the worm) > instead of the fast half (the cache)? the current setup is that the worm and the "cache" are the same speed (in fact, the cache is slower because it's on two disks rather than

Re: [9fans] acme Put doesn't save

2009-03-07 Thread yy
2009/3/4 roger peppe : > personally, i think that Put should work on any non-application > window, and that re-columnation should only take place if > the textual content hasn't been modified by the user. (and > probably also that if you change the name of a window to a directory > name and do "Get

Re: [9fans] acme Put doesn't save

2009-03-07 Thread yy
Sorry, but I included some not related changes in the previous patch (I will stop sending patches to the list as soon as I get a contrib dir...) -- - yiyus || JGL . diff /sys/src/cmd/acme/exec.c . 643c643 < if(et==nil || et->w==nil || et->w->isdir) --- > if(et==nil || et->w==nil) 645a646 > w-

Re: [9fans] C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs

2009-03-07 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/pietro/programming.pdf I uploaded a slightly updated version to /n/sources/contrib/pietro/ programming.ms and updated the PDF likewise. When I get more time I will further expand the tutorial.

Re: [9fans] C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs

2009-03-07 Thread Bruce Ellis
Is this a Plan-9 for dummies or do you intend to follow it with how to actually use plan9 to your advantage? brucee On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/pietro/programming.pdf > > I uploaded a slightly updated version to > /n/source

Re: [9fans] C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs

2009-03-07 Thread John Barham
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/pietro/programming.pdf > > I uploaded a slightly updated version to > /n/sources/contrib/pietro/programming.ms and updated the PDF likewise. When > I get more time I will further expand the tutoria