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Thursday, August 10, 2000, 11:43:19 PM, Oleg wrote:
> It doesn't remain in memory -- it is dumped to swapfile and next time
> I will need it it will be ready a bit faster than if started again. It
> will be an economy of my time if I use it frequently.
You know, I replied too soon. Ok, your contention is that it doesn't
remain in memory, that it dumps into the swap file and is loaded from that.
Fine, it is still all disk access so I don't believe the speed gain is all
that much, a few ns at best as I indicated in my previous message.
However, the argument is that if you're using the editor often enough it
is faster to leave it in memory than to load it up each time, right?
Well, I believe that if you're using it often enough to want to leave it
in memory (aside from the HUGE editors, which we're not talking about) that it
is most likely already /IN/ memory. That silly thing called the disk cache
that most modern OSs implement automatically, including Windows.
Yesterday I finally mucked around with vim/gvim and got vgim into some of
the windows menus and made a shortcut for it on my launcher. I loaded it a
good 20 times yesterday from the start bar and exited it 20 times, also. At
no time did I ever have to wait for it to start up. From nothing to loaded,
even without the disk cache, was less than a blink of an eye, literally. That
includes any syntax highlighting scripts that it loaded for the code I was
working on at the moment. Since I loaded it so often I am willing to bet that
after the first one it was in the cache. I didn't notice a difference on
startup. In fact, sitting here double clicking the icon for gvim as fast as I
can it comes up as fast as I do it, 20-30 windows straight.
Therefore I feel the whole argument of "Well, it saves me time on loadup"
is most likely dogma from the authors of the program and unless you're on a
machine where TB! itself would be dog slow to load up any decent editor that
would be used for composing email does not need to be kept in memory or swap
or whatever they want to claim this time for any speed considerations at all.
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