Re: [aspell] Aspell, Emacs and fly-spell mode

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Ales Kosir wrote:

> I wonder whether my observations of fly-spell mode in Emacs and aspell
> are reproducible and common. 

How does fly-spell mode work?

> In the command flyspell-buffer, the process
> size of aspell grows rather rapidly from starting 8 MB to 15 MB in a
> minute, until most of the available system memory is eventually
> exhausted.

Are you checking English text files?

> That happens even in connection with rather short text files (something
> like 1 MB long).

1 MB is NOT a small text file.

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