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Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo

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302 points pehringer | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 14:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

A quick dive into the Plan9 assembly I picked up while developing my SIMD package for Go, and how it led to a 450% performance boost in calculations.
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rob74 ◴[18 Oct 24 15:23 UTC] No.41880278[source]▶
In case it's not obvious, the "Plan 9" in the Go Assembler's name comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs, and the reason for that is of course that two of the "Go founders" (Rob Pike and Ken Thompson) are Bell Labs alumni. Some more background on the Go assembler: https://go.dev/doc/asm
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colechristensen ◴[18 Oct 24 15:31 UTC] No.41880349[source]▶
The same people used the same name for two computer related projects.

That's certainly an ... interesting choice.

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1. lagniappe ◴[18 Oct 24 15:35 UTC] No.41880376[source]▶
Definitely don't look into Nix then