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Funny that Emacs is considered “lean” today. It was definitely consider one of the heaviest, most bloated editors out there in the past. “Eight Megabytes And Co
by klodolph 6y ago
Funny that Emacs is considered “lean” today. It was definitely consider one of the heaviest, most bloated editors out there in the past. “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”
- agumonkey 6y agoIndeed but the swap is real, I tried vscode (win64) on a 2nd gen i5 and couldn't insert chars in real time. Emacs is not smooth on windows but I couldn't go back to it fast enough.
- icedchai 6y agoSeriously! In my early Linux days (before 1994) I wouldn't run emacs. My first serious Linux system (486) had 8 megs of RAM and running emacs would bring things to a halt. I upgraded it to 32 megs which was amazing for the time...