A Week with Plan 9

Re:A Week with Plan 9 by butterisgood on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:19PM (#25779104)

Plan9Port works on Mac OS, Linux, several BSDs etc, and I'm nearly 100% certain existed before Russ moved to google.

It pre-dates Go by a bit for sure, and Go was already underway at Google with Rob Pike before Russ came over (per my recollection).

That said, I too use plan9port, on my mac, for Acme mainly.

Russ just fixed up the thread library so it works more uniformly (and correctly) on all platforms - including Apple Silicon.

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Re:A Week with Plan 9 by octetta on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:14PM (#25779896)

I saw the thread fix-up recently. Based on the comments, it seems setcontext/getcontext versus pthreads is becoming less of an issue these days.

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Re:A Week with Plan 9 by butterisgood on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:43PM (#25780335)

Well one is supposed to implement cooperatively scheduled coroutines, and the other is pthreads.

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