Yeah. I did feel the original joke, though. There's a reason why emacs had this weird "unexec" bootstrap during building that would run emacs, compile all its l

Yeah. I did feel the original joke, though. There's a reason why emacs had this weird "unexec" bootstrap during building that would run emacs, compile all its lisp, and just dump all its memory back onto disk to be the actual executable. My first Linux PC had 8MB RAM, long long after emacs became a thing. If emacs' resident set came even close to half of that or so, "constantly swapping" would have been reality.