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From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNUEmacs using all the CPU on my Sun4
Message-ID: <1327@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 90 19:08:40 GMT
References: <FELIX.90Aug13165019@cayucos.ai.sri.com> <204@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au>
Reply-To: shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore)
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In article <204@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au> duty@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au (Duty Programmer) writes:
>Now, I don't
>have the source code handy, but does Emacs do function calls for every
>keystroke? 

Function calls?  Heck, I did some tracing under Mach and found
that emacs did 20-30 *system calls* per keystroke under X.  

>If it does, then this could slow things up a bit...?

A tad.
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