From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject: Re: emcAsc
Date: 3 Dec 1999 09:21:49 GMT
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Leon (Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au) wrote:
: > The real reason that emacs is so slow on startup is its absolute
: > size. It simply won't fit into 4MB RAM, without much squeezing, and as
: > soon as you start compilations from inside Emacs, it'll die.

: thanks! that is a very good info becuase it will allow me to make sort of
: educated decision  - what RAM size would you consider to be OK for running
: EMCAS (while also running compilers of course ;-)

FYI, I ran emacs on a 386DX with 4MiB of RAM and compiled a rather
large test suite this weekend (in WINDOZE 3.1 even, so even less
memory to emacs). It didn't die; it worked. But I didn't do any
extensive editing in it, so I suggest you try and see, and if you find
it too slow, change then.


Pettersson, Symphony 8,

							MartinS