Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!vaxc!mkhaw From: mkhaw@vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: GNU Emacs performance Message-ID: <12879@vaxc.ARPA> Date: Tue, 19-May-87 13:56:39 EDT Article-I.D.: vaxc.12879 Posted: Tue May 19 13:56:39 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 20-May-87 05:39:04 EDT Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 11 Keywords: cpu hog maybe Is GNU Emacs a CPU hog (at least relative to vi, for example)? Whenever I do a "ps", the emacs processes seem to generally have consumed more CPU time than most other user processes. Is that because emacs users tend to do nearly everything from within emacs (shell buffers, dired, etc), or is it GNU Emacs itself? Mike Khaw -- internet: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.arpa usenet: {hplabs|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|sri-unix}!mkhaw%teknowledge-vaxc.arpa USnail: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303