Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cray 2 has 2GW address
Message-ID: <9722@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 15:01:38 GMT
References: <416@micropen> <3534@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <3534@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
| [...]
| The reason GNU Emacs is slow on a Vax11/780 is simple: thrashing. A
| well-engendered Vaxen has maybe 8 megabytes of main memory. The GNU Emacs core
| image can get up to 2 megabytes large with no problem. Run 20 of those on a
| Vax 780... well, you can see that you better have a hefty swap space, because
| that baby's gonna be swappin' her heart out :-}.

You're right, but the situation isn't as bad as you make it seem. First,
a well engineered VAX would have more memory than that... we use 16MB on
workstations now. Second, a big part of gemacs is the text portion,
which is sharable. The data is quite a bit smaller.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me