Re: Performance degradation from long lines

[Stefan Monnier]

> About 5 or 6 years old.  When I got it, it was the cheapest, slowest
> laptop in a big box electronics store.  It has an AMD E1-1500,
> which is a 2-core CPU which runs at 1477.298 MHz
> according to /proc/cpuinfo

Ah, yes, it's basically the same as the E350, i.e. better than the
original Atom used in netbooks but not very much.

I used to use such a system (a Zotac E350) and my basic performance tests
on it puts it at a factor of 2 slower than my Mac Mini with a Core 2 duo
T7600 at 2.33GHz (and about 3 times as fast as the Allwinner A20
in my BananaPi).

So it is indeed a fairly poor performer (most of my current machines use
processors comparable to that Core 2 duo, but I think they're
considered pretty slow nowadays).

Still, Emacs should be usable on such systems.


        Stefan