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From: z@cca.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman)
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Subject: Re: Is Gosling's EMACS really slow or what ?
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 10:11:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 20 10:11:22 1984
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Phil Ngai brought up some points that I think were somewhat misleading,
so I think I should clarify the record.

Although CCA EMACS once had certain error and documentation messages
compiled into the program, these were all moved out into separate files
about two years ago, well before the first commercial release of the
program.  Also, the current bss storage is 420K, not 900K, and this can
be further reduced for small memory configurations.  However, the amount
of bss storage required in no way affects the startup time of a program,
as the bss simply reflects the amount of memory that is reserved for
later use by the program.

In terms of startup time, CCA EMACS takes about three seconds to come
up on a Sun, using average size initialization files.  As for
efficiency, we have measured the effect of ten people using CCA EMACS on
a VAX 11/780 with nothing else happening; the load average remained
under one.

	Steve Zimmerman
	CCA Uniworks