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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language


From: Miles Bader
Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language
Date: 17 Oct 2003 13:30:20 +0900

Joshua Haberman <address@hidden> writes:
>  I also like vim's snappier startup time

FWIW, the default emacs seems to startup a bit _faster_ than vim these
days, if they're in the disk cache (the code size is roughly comparable,
but emacs typically has a huge data segment due to all the preloaded lisp):

TTY:

   (miles) time emacs -nw -q -f kill-emacs
   real    0m0.145s
   user    0m0.030s
   sys     0m0.030s

   (miles) time vim +q
   real    0m0.193s
   user    0m0.050s
   sys     0m0.040s

X:

   (miles) time emacs -q -f kill-emacs
   real    0m0.500s
   user    0m0.250s
   sys     0m0.040s

   (miles) time vim -g +q
   real    0m0.614s
   user    0m0.380s
   sys     0m0.060s

[times are the median of several runs]

What really kills you with emacs is if you got a giant bloated .emacs
file like most of us do...

-Miles
-- 
A zen-buddhist walked into a pizza shop and
said, "Make me one with everything."




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