coreutils

Posted Aug 31, 2005 13:37 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: vim vs. (original) vi, not vs. older versions of vim. by nix
Parent article: Vim's newest features (Linux.com)

Something like Emacs is not a good comparison. Most of the traditional unix programs are often used as "operators" in scripts. This means they may get started thousands of times during the execution of the script, so it pays to ensure that they are "non-bloated" in the sense that they start quickly and don't hog memory unnecessarily (to be a better citizen in a pipeline).