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Article #3713Re: GNU Emacs, memory usage, releasing
From: Craig Finseth
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 16:48
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 16:48
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In article <SN_87Eggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >> I contend that in a "modern workstation environment" (e.g., Sun 3/60), >> a simple buffer gap method is preferred over both paged buffer gap and >> linked line. I leave it as an excercise for the reader to figure out >> why. >I'm not sure this is a valid conclusion. If 75K is the optimal file size >for a buffer-gap solution, how about paged buffer-gap with 75K pages? Or >to add a bit of compromise with some of today's brain-dead architectures >perhaps 64K pages would work nearly as well. Where did this "75K" figure come from? It wasn't mentioned by me. It would be a very unusual constant to remain constant over a wide range of architectures, speeds, memory sizes, and other performance-related figures. In particular, I have had no trouble editing multi-megabyte files in GNU Emacs on a Sun 3/280 w/8 MBytes of memory. Craig A. Finseth fin@msc.umn.edu [CAF13] Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc. +1 612 624 3375
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!uh!fin From: fin@uh.msc.umn.edu (Craig Finseth) Newsgroups: comp.editors,gnu.emacs,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: GNU Emacs, memory usage, releasing Keywords: GNU emacs malloc memory working set gap editor Message-ID: <1060@uc.msc.umn.edu> Date: 8 Jan 90 16:48:15 GMT References: <1558@aber-cs.UUCP> <1025@uc.msc.umn.edu> <SN_87Eggpc2@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@uc.msc.umn.edu Reply-To: fin@uh.UUCP (Craig Finseth) Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN Lines: 21