Re: Mail.app

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From: Aaron Crane
Subject: Re: Mail.app
Date: 19:48 on 29 Jul 2005
Luke Kanies writes:
> I don't know, man; I'm not sure anyone with emacs installed gets to
> complain about applications wasting a lot of space...  140MB for an
> editor?

Not really -- 140MB for a package containing an editor with most of its
source code, plus a large number of add-on packages, some of which are
large anyway, and all of which also include source.  (Or at least, the
Emacs I've got on my own Mac looks like that.)  So, yes, it's hateful
that installing Emacs needs 140MB, but it's the packager's fault, not
the application's.  For comparison, the minimal Emacs 21 packages on
Debian Sarge for i386 have a combined installed-size of 6242KB, which
does sound much more reasonable.

BTW, on my Sarge laptop, when I compare Vim 6.3 and GNU Emacs 21.4.1, I
find the following:

  Command                       VSZ    RSS    Estimated time to start
  gvim -i NONE -u NONE -U NONE  20000  11156  1500ms
  emacs21 -q --no-site-file     13040   8080   800ms

The VSZ and RSS are according to 'ps u', and the estimated time to start
is the gap between hitting Enter on the command line, and having a
window ready to type at, as estimated subjectively by me.

Of course, this is somewhat off-topic, as I can't currently muster up
much hate at all for either editor.  Doubtless that will change soon
enough...

-- 
Aaron Crane
There's stuff above here

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