Notes from the leading edge

Posted Nov 22, 2006 13:56 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
Parent article: Notes from the leading edge

>lean-and-mean applications like emacs

I think I know what these words mean, discretely, but this combination is fraught with cognitive dissonance, sir. ;)

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Notes from the leading edge

Posted Nov 22, 2006 14:59 UTC (Wed) by dvrabel (guest, #9500) [Link] (1 responses)

Given that on my box emacs is 25% of the memory footprint of GNOME's clock applet, I think the term "lean" applies. After all, a clock should be really lightweight, right?

 4843 dv02      15   0  184m 129m 9056 S    0 12.9   1:18.82 clock-applet
 6538 dv02      15   0 39508  30m 8152 S    0  3.1   7:29.96 emacs

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Posted Nov 23, 2006 10:18 UTC (Thu) by jonth (guest, #4008) [Link]

I'd suggest you've got a memory leak with your version of clock-applet. Here's mine:

3438 jpl 15 0 21540 9964 8300 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.15 clock-applet

(although I'd agree that 21M is also a bit big for a clock!)

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Posted Nov 22, 2006 16:41 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] (1 responses)

Emacs was huge twenty years ago. Its memory consumption has not significantly increased since then, while everything else has ballooned.

So this whole "Emacs is a memory hog!" meme needs to die.

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Posted Nov 29, 2006 3:22 UTC (Wed) by mikov (guest, #33179) [Link]

You are right. On my box sometimes Emacs actually starts faster than Konsole. It does take less memory too:

      
ceco 4030  0.0  2.9 28620 15092 ? S    13:10   0:00 kdeinit: konsole       
ceco 6803 28.0  1.6 11708 8368  ? S    19:13   0:00 emacs       
ceco 6855  2.0  0.5  5892 2832  ? S    19:16   0:00 xterm  
ceco 6869  5.2  2.0 27620 10728 ? S    19:17   0:00 gnome-terminal