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From: sotham@blake.acs.washington.edu (Joe Sotham)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Relative cost of GNU Emacs vs Vi.
Keywords: overhead, cost
Message-ID: <2992@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 89 15:35:19 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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Has anyone studied the relative system resource requirements for GNU
emacs and other unix editors like jove, and vi. In particular I am
interested in a comparison for simple text editing tasks. At the U.W. we
are considering the recommendation of gnu emacs as an editor of choice
for the U.W. computing community.  Because individuals are allotted
fixed computer resources it would be appropriate to recommend tools
that use computer resources efficiently .  If another editor makes
more efficient use of system resources the our users would be better
served by those tools. Our machines run BSD4.3.

Of course there are some tasks which gnu emacs is well suited and in those
cases the choice is clear.


*  There are no opinions here, just questions *