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Re: Emacs



On 2009-08-31 06:46 (-0700), Steve Lamb wrote:

> Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> 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.
>
>      Uhhhh, I dunno what you have in your vim but that is not the
> standard text mode vim, I can assure you...
>
> grey      9287  0.8  0.2   5464  2560 pts/0    S+   06:43   0:00 vim
>
>     2.5Mb.  You're off by over a factor.

Memory usage can be measured different ways. What we see here is the
difference between usage of VSZ and RSS memory. Neither gives the
ultimate answer, only a certain point of view.


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