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Subject: Re: Speed of Emacs

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 23:01:10 02/18/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 16:09:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>Right out of /proc/meminfo:
>
>MemTotal:      1030228 kB
>
>one gigabyte.  And I had _not_ opened enormous.pgn previously so there was no
>file cached up...

...which is still more than the 950M the file was big. Just try
opening a file that won't fit into RAM. Though given that you probably
have a swap over a RAID or something, it may not matter for you, but I
know it's a no-go for a slightly more modest machine.

>I'm just pointing out that while I don't use Emacs (I use VI because I can
>depend on it being on any unix system I have to deal with) it is not a bad
>editor at all.  And it certainly doesn't take 20+ seconds to start up...

Not anymore, no.

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GCP



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