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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: CPU Efficiency emacs wins over vi
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Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 12:00:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 12:00:34 1987
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In article <19219@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:

>There is a common case where emacs uses much fewer cycles than vi.
>When you page through a file by hitting the page key on your keyboard
>quickly, vi insists on processing your input one key at a time,
>laborously drawing page after page that any intelligent program could
>tell you aren't interested in. Emacs is an intelligent program: if
>your type ahead would cause the current re-display to be invalid, it
>doesn't bother finishing the re-display, it uses its CPU time slot to
>DO what you want instead of to SHOW what you don't want, and when it

I am using gnu emacs v18.41.  When I hit a bunch of C-v's emacs draws
each page.  Did I misconfigure something when I installed emacs or...
g.

George Hartzell			                 (303) 492-4535
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