5 ms·

Sounds like overkill to me.

• mbrumlow 8y ago
  Yet we have entire editors that do far less that require a entire web browser and take 100+ Meg's of ram to run. Edit: gigabytes of ram.
  • laythea 8y ago
    That's overkill too.
    • username223 8y ago
      "There are two kinds of overkill: the sort of overkill that lets you write Gameboy emulators, or Enterprise overkill; the sort of overkill that’s only bloat. I have no patience for useless things."
      • throwawaymath 8y ago
        Who said that?
        • aerique 8y ago
          username223
        • deleted 8y ago
          [deleted]
• aerique 8y ago
  Quite a lot of things we do on the computer involves manipulating text.
• admax88q 8y ago
  "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." In the Emacs case, Stallman just made that explicit, implementing Lisp from the start.