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Emacs tuned for fast computersEmacs tuned for fast computersPosted May 19, 2007 22:07 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Waiting for Emacs 22 (and looking forward to Emacs 23) by walters Parent article: Waiting for Emacs 22 (and looking forward to Emacs 23)
Emacs really needs to realize that their users are almost universally programmers or system administrators, and that they are likely running Emacs on computers with fast processors and 512MB of RAM or above. I wonder if programmers and system administrators have more powerful machines than the average computer user. The things I think of that need high power are end-user type things: web browsing, games, watching movies, etc. Emacs is highly useful today on systems that are pretty much worthless for all those things. I am personally a good counterexample: I am a computer nerd and satisfy most of my requirements with old systems. The main pressure for me to upgrade is to be able to use newer Emacs, because Emacs does in fact assume a fairly modern computer. I got a new computer so I could upgrade from Emacs 19 to 20, and now I'm planning to upgrade so I can move to 21. I won't bother with 22. If I weren't a computer nerd, I could easily trash my current systems and go the store and get faster ones to put in their place. But because of all the customization I've done, it's not that easy.
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