Having picked up Emacs recently, it feels sort of the opposite of bloated, though there is definitely complexity. I think its reputation for being large dates t

Having picked up Emacs recently, it feels sort of the opposite of bloated, though there is definitely complexity. I think its reputation for being large dates to a different era of minimalist Unix tools, when Emacs using MEGABYTES of memory ("eight megs and constantly swapping") looked big compared to vi. But if you're comparing emacs to Eclipse, it's a resource-stingy speed demon.