Re: unstable/1.1 experiences, uucp still a.out?
Billy Chow writes:
> Olaf> sluggish. It's not a mem problem, it's 32mb (but only a 486/66)
> Olaf> with 10mb free on average... Loading emacs freezes X11
> Olaf> completely for about 5 seconds, with a.out everything slowed
> Olaf> down during emacs-startup, too, but not like now. That's the
> Olaf> price we pay for new features..
>
> Is it generally the case? I read somewhere (was it the ELF-OWTO?)
> that there should not be much difference betwen aout and elf in term
> of speed.
Look at my other mail I just sent- generally it's as fast as before, no
other noticable slowdowns.
> I have only 8Mb ram on a 486-66. If performance will suffer a lot, I
> think I 'll defer upgrading to 1.1 until I get a better computer.
I think if you upgrade completely without leaving a.out packages around
this should be no problem...
Olaf
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