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From: shore@ncifcrf.gov (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs on Cray X/MP?
Keywords: overkill inefficient
Message-ID: <588@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 22 Aug 88 19:35:57 GMT
References: <523@nikhefh.hep.nl> <20463@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: shore@ncifcrf.gov (Melinda Shore)
Organization: NCI Supercomputer Center, Frederick, MD
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In article <20463@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>The Cray vector architecture has fairly poor handling of character I/O
>and interrupts/context switches, at least in the conventional UNIX
>sense.

Not to mention no VM and poor performance swapping large processes.
While the trend on interactive systems is to optimize user performance
(as opposed to machine performance), you probably don't want to sink
your Cray just to run emacs.
-- 
Melinda Shore                                    shore@ncifcrf.gov
NCI Supercomputer Facility              ..!uunet!ncifcrf.gov!shore