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Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo

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302 points pehringer | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 14:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | 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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spiffistan ◴[18 Oct 24 16:13 UTC] No.41880773[source]▶
There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have used that internally instead.
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1. stonogo ◴[18 Oct 24 16:51 UTC] No.41881199[source]▶
The top voted alternative was "Issue 9" which served as a reference to Plan 9 and happened to be the actual issue number in the Go project on Google Code opened by the guy who's programming language (named "Go!") was already out there.
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2. spiffistan ◴[18 Oct 24 17:06 UTC] No.41881352[source]▶
You're right, my bad