Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:08:28 02/19/04
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On February 19, 2004 at 02:01:10, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 have one gig of ram. Crafty was running using one CPU at the time, with 384 megs of hash, so no way everything could be cached up. But irregardless, the 1 gig of file data _had_ to be read from disk, as that is how VI works, if you are familiar with it. My point was that this is good for _any_ editor. I didn't see any significant difference between using VI and EMACS on opening this thing, which suggests that the comments about emacs being slow are nothing more than "uninformed" unless it was run on ancient hardware. > >>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. > >-- >GCP
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