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I actually found DrRacket very fast and Emacs very slow, on every computer I've tried them on. Why might this be?
by JimmyM 12y ago
I actually found DrRacket very fast and Emacs very slow, on every computer I've tried them on. Why might this be?
- sjolsen 12y agoEmacs Lisp is interpreted (or byte-interpreted), and (GNU) Emacs is written almost exclusively in it, so startup can be dog-slow. Once it's up and running, though, I've always found it pretty snappy.