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From: z@cca.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Is Gosling's EMACS really slow or what ?
Message-ID: <132@cca.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Aug-84 14:55:55 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 25 14:55:55 1984
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      "I regularly run a program with 200k text, 50k data, and bss larger than
      1Meg.  The effect of large bss upon startup time is quite noticeable."

For measurement purposes, I've run CCA EMACS with a total size of over 1
megabyte as well.  Although the program takes several seconds to start
up, I know that it begins to execute its initialization routines within
a half second of starting because these routines send strings to the
terminal that can be displayed on terminals with monitor facilities.  At
this point, a fair amount of code has already been executed, so the real
load time is probably under half a second.  Compared to the overall
initialization time of several seconds, this does not seem very
significant.

	Steve Zimmerman