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A fun thing about this is that they joke that vi occupies 1310720 bytes on disk (which in context I think is meant to seem extremely, unreasonably large). But i
by schoen 9y ago
A fun thing about this is that they joke that vi occupies 1310720 bytes on disk (which in context I think is meant to seem extremely, unreasonably large). But in 2017 my current vi binary (which also uses a lot of external files!) is 2923968 bytes, over twice the size of the imagined binary in the joke.
- IncRnd 9y agoemacs = 8 Megs And Constantly Swapping
- schoen 9y agoWhen I first heard that joke, I thought it meant "it forces you to swap frequently, even on a system with a (luxurious) 8 MB of main memory". But is it possible that it means "it forces you to swap frequently with its 8 MB binary image"?
- IncRnd 9y agoI suppose it works either way, but I've always understood that to be about the size of emacs. Size meaning not just the binary, but that emacs is practically an OS unto itself.