Author: Tom Likens
Date: 07:29:57 02/19/04
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On February 18, 2004 at 15:06:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On February 18, 2004 at 13:57:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I just typed "emacs" on my dual xeon and it took (according to the time >> command) 1.5 seconds to load the _first_ time (I don't use emacs, I use VI). >>The next time I typed emacs I hit return and it popped up instantly. >> >>I then went to one of our sun ultra-sparcs. It took about 3 seconds to pop up >>the first time, and then no time thereafter. >> >>Your 20 seconds nonsense is pure hyperbole with no factual basis, unless you >are using an old 8086 with a floppy disk for storage.. > >There's a joke that Emacs stands for "Eight megabytes >and continously swapping". I'm pretty sure when people >came up with it, it was true. Load time may be insignificant >these days, text editing is hardly a demanding application >either. > >>No editor under linux has problems either. I just vi'ed the "enormous.pgn" >file with no problems. Took49 seconds to open and close it. 945 megabytes of >>ASCII text. > >Your machine has more than 1G of RAM, I'd wager. Last time I tried, >vi performance with > RAM size files was bad. "Less" on the other hand >handles them well. It depends on the application. > >>Let me know how your windows editor does when you open that file... > >Depends on which one you use. I'm sure there's a lot of ones that do >badly, and I know there's at least one that handles it perfectly. > >IMHO this discussion is as silly as usual. As far as I can gather, >Vincent is claiming there are no good editors for Linux, and Steven >is claiming all Windows software sucks. > >Of course they are both right :-) > >-- >GCP You could always buy Visual Slickedit for Linux (or Windows as well). What this has to do with computer chess programming, I of course have no idea ;-) regards, --tom
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