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This argument makes me smile as someone who is old enough to remember when Emacs stood for "eight megabytes and constantly swapping".
by kenny11 3y ago
This argument makes me smile as someone who is old enough to remember when Emacs stood for "eight megabytes and constantly swapping".
- mcpackieh 3y agoThe old GNU mentality of ignoring performance optimization because computer hardware would catch up eventually actually did pay off.
- yaantc 3y agoSame here ;) But now there's "8 GB and constantly swapping": Eclipse! I logged once on a dev server to test something, it was slow and I checked what was going on. On this 64 GB machine, 8 Eclipse users, each Eclipse using a tad over 8 GB, led to significant swapping. What a world!