Re: bi

[Vadim Vygonets <vadik@cs.huji.ac.il>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:

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> >>>>>>>> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Vadim wrote:
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> Vadim> Two reasons emacs is slow: 1. Lisp (jed is faster than emacs
> Vadim> because it uses S-Lang (however they spell it)). 
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> My beloved Vadik, :) there is nothing objectively "fast" about slang
> and nothing "slow" about lisp. Emacs seems to be alot more
> complicated then jed that's all. (maybe jed is faster just because
> it meant to be "fast emacs clone"?)

Dearest Borik, you should know that various Lisps (scheme, e-lisp,
etc.) are interpreted really really slow, and S-Lang is interpreted
faster.  As far as I know, jed can do basically the same things emacs
can.  It's still slower than vi, because vi doesn't make 8 system
calls per keystroke (as emacs does).  And about jed being faster
because it's supposed to be a faster emacs clone -- let's call emacs a
faster ed clone and see how it works ;)

> Always truly yours,
> borik

I love you too, bro.
Vadik.

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the last time you needed one?  -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal, Fall 1990.


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