>so does starting Emacs complete with its GUI I'm with you all the way and am a daily emacs user but I'm not sure I'd point to emacs as a good performance comp

>so does starting Emacs complete with its GUI I'm with you all the way and am a daily emacs user but I'm not sure I'd point to emacs as a good performance comparison, haha. Emacs has always been a bit of a dog in my experience.