"vi" & Supercomputer Performance
ross boylan
boylanr at silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Tue Oct 9 08:27:55 AEST 1990
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.
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