On 2009-08-31 03:46 (-0500), Ron Johnson wrote: > emacs: Eighty Megabytes And Constantly Swapping > > (I feel like I'm channeling 1994...)
Yes, some jokes need to be updated. My current Emacs session takes about 53 MB of memory. There are several buffers open, Gnus mail/news reader as well as Org-mode calendar/agenda/organizer loaded. How much your text editor, programming environment, mail/news application and calendar application eat memory together? Vi is probably considered the "not-heavy-weight but still powerful text editor". Today's standard Vi-like editor is Vim so here are some comparisons about memory consumption. A fresh Emacs GUI session (GTK) takes 34 MB of memory; A fresh GVim session (GTK) takes 37 MB of memory. If I start the same Emacs and Vim executables in a text terminal mode the numbers are 27 MB for Emacs and 30 MB for Vim. So it would seem that Emacs is a bit lighter than full-featured Vim. Both editors can be compiled with smaller set of features which may make them even lighter. Bottom line: Emacs and Vim are light-weight applications in today's standards. Emacs is not heavier than a full-featured Vim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org