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Re: USB modem Linux driver
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: USB modem Linux driver
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 21 Mar 2001 01:15:29 -0500
- Cc: Chen Shapira <chen(at-nospam)mercury.co.il>, solomon(at-nospam)barak-online.net, linux-il <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: "Nadav Har'El"'s message of "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:47:56 +0200"
- Organization: Speaking for myself only.
- Original-Sender: ogoldshmidt@computer.org
- References: <2EC8116DF71CD411BB2F00508BC24B150262A1C4@gomez.mercury.co.il><20010320194756.A10434@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>
- Reply-To: ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org
- Sender: ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)comgates.co.il
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- User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley)
"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:
> XEmacs (or Emacs) is a half way to being bloatware. Most of the disk-space
> it uses is packages that can be loaded when needed on runtime, so it doesn't
> have to start slowly or use up tons of memory when it runs. But in reality,
> when you use a dozen different packages like I use, startup can be pretty
> slow (say, 10 seconds) and this becomes annoying
You decide what to load and when. You needn't load anything until you
really need it. There are hooks, conditional loading, autoloading,
various lazy stuff etc. It's very easy (and this is not specific to
emacs) to write very inefficient code [and then forget to compile it
;-)].
> - so annoying that I never
> start and stop Emacs: I use "gnuclient" to start new windows on an
> existing XEmacs process. With gnuclient, XEmacs is indeed a cheetah
> and a delight to work with.
I start XEmacs once a day, too, and don't kill it until I log
off. Gnuclient (or, rather, the nifty editclient script) is my EDITOR,
and it is not unusual for me to have 6-7 frames open on different
virtual desktops. I don't see any performance problems normally.
But then, emacs can do no wrong in my world ;-).
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
"... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time." [Shakespeare]
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