Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)
Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic)
Posted Feb 29, 2008 1:54 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Definition of software bloat - see "Emacs" (veering off-topic) by Xman
Parent article: Emacs news: new maintainer, version 22 pretest
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.