Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site cca.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!z From: z@cca.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: Is Gosling's EMACS really slow or what ? Message-ID: <73@cca.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 10:11:22 EDT Article-I.D.: cca.73 Posted: Mon Aug 20 10:11:22 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 03:55:18 EDT References: <199@amd.UUCP> Organization: Computer Corp America, Cambridge Lines: 20 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