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From: todd@uhccux.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs performance
Message-ID: <517@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 02:31:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 02:31:49 1987
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Reply-To: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
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In article <1439@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> narten@percival.cs.purdue.edu (Thomas Narten) writes:
>>Is GNU Emacs a CPU hog (at least relative to vi, for example)?
>Of course it is! But then, isn't vi a cpu hog relative to ed?

Well, I don't think that answers the original question.  I'd also like to
know if anyone has seriously looked at the resources used by GNU EMACS.
I'm just about to turn on accounting on a VAX 8650 and would like to be able
to answer users' questions about EMACS' usage of CPU resources.

My offhand response is that it seems to be a hog of program.  It seems to
been in run state more often than other programs.  But that seems reasonable
since, as the the person who asked the question said, EMACS users tend
to do "everything" from within EMACS.  Still, I'd like to know if someone
has done some serious looking into how much EMACS uses on a "typical
system" (whatever that is).  With all the screen updating, use of
psuedo-tty, etc., it seems like EMACS would be a real resource hog...todd

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Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Computing Center
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