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Notes from the leading edge

Notes from the leading edge

Posted Nov 22, 2006 16:41 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Notes from the leading edge by smitty_one_each
Parent article: Notes from the leading edge

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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Notes from the leading edge

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


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