> On the other hand, I'm reminded of the arguments against emacs using 8 MEGS of memory and how terrible that is. Yeah, but back then Moore's Law was running f

> On the other hand, I'm reminded of the arguments against emacs using 8 MEGS of memory and how terrible that is. Yeah, but back then Moore's Law was running full steam and we were getting tremendous advances in processor and memory performance every year. Now that era has ended; what processor performance we have today is likely to remain more or less the same for the foreseeable future, barring a miracle from the chipmakers. It's time to stop pissing away performance by using inefficient software stacks and web technologies are a big, juicy target for cleanup.