Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame

[Hikaru Ichijyo]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Hikaru Ichijyo <ichijyo@macross.sdf.jp> writes:
>
>> But you're right -- by today's standards, it's
>> a very thin application. On my system, it launches
>> in about one second, even with all the stuff I've
>> got in my ~/.emacs. Everything is nearly instant,
>> and if anything ever causes system-wide problems,
>> you can be sure it's never Emacs.
>>
>> It's gone from being regarded as a monstrosity to
>> a model citizen desktop application, all just
>> because everything else got go bloated
>> in comparison.
>
> This is all confusing! It is better to not use words
> like "thin", "bloated" etc. What does it mean?
>
> My Emacs binary, /usr/bin/emacs24-nox, is
> 13625528 bytes, or ~13M. The emacs24 package in the
> Debian repos is, uncompressed, 17.8 M. The software
> itself is very powerful and feature-rich.

Generally, I just meant that I remember in the 1980's and 90's, people
used to joke about Emacs being enormous.  On 80's workstations, it might
take all the memory in your machine just to run an Emacs session.  Now I
can't think of many programs that are friendlier to your resources.
Emacs didn't change though -- the standards of "normal" did.

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