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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. colechristensen ◴[18 Oct 24 20:12 UTC] No.41883038[source]▶
EDIT: it seems the author is just mistaken, the Go assembler is just referred to by everyone else as "Go Assembler" and nothing to do with plan9, other than the various connections to its origin.