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Back in the 90s the joke was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". 8mb is nothing now and I note that Nano, with no file open, is 6768kb virtual and 3620kb
by NelsonMinar 5y ago
Back in the 90s the joke was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". 8mb is nothing now and I note that Nano, with no file open, is 6768kb virtual and 3620kb resident on my x86_64 Linux box.
(I use mg as my small emacs alternative; full emacs UI but tiny binary / memory. Unfortunately it doesn't support Unicode properly.)
- anthk 5y agoCheck jmacs from joe.
- NelsonMinar 5y agoOh that's nice, somehow I never thought to try Joe. It's 13MB VSZ and 7MB RSS megabytes in my little measurement. emacs-nox is 94/22.
- anthk 5y ago"emacs -nw -q" can be pretty fast too. Not light on resources compared to jmacs, but at least it loads faster.
- microtherion 5y agoThere is also GNU zile.
- a_e_k 5y agoOr Mg, which is even smaller.
- anthk 5y agoThe parent had issues with Unicode, which jmacs doesn't.
- NelsonMinar 5y agoDoes not support Unicode.
- xxpor 5y agoI wonder how much of the base data structures that are always in memory are pointers, and if it'd be more fair to say it's really the equivalent of 3 mb virtual/1.5 mb resident (or even 1.5/.75 for 16 bit!)
- soraminazuki 5y agoModern operating systems and memory allocation techniques make it hard to account for memory usage in a meaningful manner without a more in-depth investigation of program behavior. Quick stats from memory reporting tools aren't worth much in isolation unless those numbers significantly deviate from expectations.