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From: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Emacs and vi: efficiency
Message-ID: <1530@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 15:25:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 28 15:25:16 1986
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Reply-To: matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics
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>In article <539@goanna.oz> wjb@goanna.oz (Warwick Bolam) writes:
>>Does anyone have any figures on the resources required by vi and
>>emacs?  On our system (Vax11/750, 4.2BSD) emacs runs very slowly
>>and consumes lots of cpu.

To attempt to settle the editor wars* here, I tracked usage of
emacs and vi for a month.  The ratio of (cpu time)/(elapsed time)
was the same for each, to within 3%.  Make of that what you will.
This was on an 11/780 under 4.2.

(*) The vi faction wanted emacs to be removed from the system!
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