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From: rms@AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
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Subject: To Buy or Not to Buy ??
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Date: 16 Dec 90 23:04:41 GMT
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GNU Emacs is a large program; it starts out at around 1/2 Meg on CISC
machines, and probably larger on RISC machines.

However, on most kinds of systems, most of this space is pure and
shared by all the users.  Thus, it usually is not a significant cost
when you have many users.  However, on some machines, the pure Lisp
data and some other data cannot be shared.  This might add 200k per
user.  This is true for machines for which NO_REMAP is defined.

However, if GNU Emacs uses a whole meg of unshared memory, or even a
quarter of a meg, just to edit a small file, this is not usual; it
is worth investigating.  Maybe something is nonstandard at your site.