Re: why does M-w (kill-ring-save) hurt so bad?

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 06:30:41 -0800 Jamie Zawinski <jwz(a)jwz.org&gt; wrote: Amen. Thank you Jamie for your brutal (and massively entertaining) injection of reality. I similarly blew a gasket a couple of months ago about XEmacs' memory usage and general crappy performance. So I switched to GNU Emacs and have been relatively happy since (mainly because I don't really give a crap about the eye candy that XEmacs brings to the table)... In case anybody cares, the thing that drove me to the dark side: objdump -d vmlinux > /tmp/vmlinux.S load /tmp/vmlinux.S into XEmacs (with font-lock, lazy-lock/shot et al.) Mine takes about 15 minutes and bloats to 140MB (this is a 1GHz laptop with 512MB RAM). Under GNU Emacs loading this file is, by comparison, instantaneous (and only bloats the VM footprint by a little over the size of the file itself). I started using Lucid Emacs many years ago and it made me a more productive programmer. I switched because feeding the beast was interfering with my productivity. "Speed! Give me wot I need!" was the forgotten exhortation, I believe. -g