Re: tlug: Emacs these days

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Linsley <plinsley@example.com> writes:

    Peter> I use three X servers quite often. That way I can use the
    Peter> desktop of a machine running XDM in the noisy machine room
    Peter> without having to go there, they can be switched between
    Peter> with a key press.

Xnest has a _much_ smaller memory footprint; if you're tricky you can
probably arrange that it live on one virtual desktop in *vwm.

    Peter> As for Emacs, on monitoring the virtual memory usage, it
    Peter> looks like the right thing to do is to go out and buy more
    Peter> memory.

XEmacs will drop dead for a couple seconds for me fairly frequently
when I'm working in a very smart application (VM or w3).  But I rarely
saw GCs and other delays even on a 50MHz 80486 with 32MB of RAM when
running XEmacs + X11 + Netscape 2.something, and doing ordinary
editing (eg AUCTeX, cc-mode, or PSGML).

My current invocation of XEmacs is up around 33MB (on a P5 133 with
64MB available), and I don't have any problems (except in VM, and
that's because VM keeps whole multi-MB folders in a buffer).  It's
probably time to build the next beta and strat from scratch again ;-)

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