"vi" & Supercomputer Performance

[ross boylan]

vvawh at convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Tony Hackenberg) writes:

>Does anyone know of any studies on the effect of allowing
>vi usage by many users on supercomputer performance?

>Does anyone know if there are versions of "vi", "emacs", or other
>full screen editors that are written to minimize performance 
>hits on supercomputers?

I recall that some documentation from NCSA (Crays under UNICOS) said
that it was OK to run emacs; it didn't degrade system performance.