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Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)

Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)

Posted Feb 28, 2008 22:12 UTC (Thu) by Xman (guest, #10620)
In reply to: Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic) by pr1268
Parent article: Emacs news: new maintainer, version 22 pretest 

Emacs' use of tagging limits its maximum file size pretty significantly on 32-bit systems.
IIRC the limit is like 24MB.

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Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)

Posted Feb 29, 2008 1:54 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] 

Waaaay bigger than that. GNU Emacs uses (IIRC) four bits as tag bits, 
limiting Emacs int size and buffer size to 2^28 (256Mb). XEmacs is 
somewhat less limited in this area, but a limit still applies.


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