> We did a simple experiment recently: added a new 9p type called > Tstream, because this issue of streams vs. transactions has been > bugging me for years. The semantics are simple: it's a lot like Tread > (almost same packet) but a single Tstream results in any number of > Rstreams, until you hit no more data (/dev/mouse) or maybe EOF > (/usr/rminnich/movie). Andrey tossed a sample implementation into > newsham's 9p library. We saw a 27x improvement in performance from > calgary to sandia for a big file. Fcp did not come close.
That's similar to a Tget in op with unlimited replies. The difference adds on quickly.
