On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> > On Thursday 08 of September 2011 14:54:40 erik quanstrom wrote: >> > > On Thu Sep 8 04:52:08 EDT 2011, 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: >> > > > HTTP is technically different and not easily comparable to 9p. HTTP is >> > > > not a good example of how to do things, but over high-latency links 9p >> > > >> > > with a single outstanding request >> > > >> > > > is much slower for getting files. >> > > >> > > there, fixed that for ya. >> > >> > is 9p windowable at all? is that implemented? >> > >> > >> > >> 9p has tagged requests. > > cf. /sys/src/cmd/fcp.c > > - erik > >
I do not think it is acceptable to have to fork repeatedly merely to efficiently read a file. Also, as far as I can tell, exactly one program (fcp) does that. Can a single process have multiple outstanding requests? My investigations indicated not, but then again I may have mis-read things. John
