"vi" & Supercomputer Performance

[Sean Fagan]

In article <boylanr.655424875 at silver> boylanr at silver.ucs.indiana.edu (ross boylan) writes:
>I recall that some documentation from NCSA (Crays under UNICOS) said
>that it was OK to run emacs; it didn't degrade system performance.

Ah, yes, Crays:  machines where a 1-2Mb EMACS process is considered small.

It isn't that the emacs didn't degrade performance, it was that it was found
that using emacs (or other editors, for that matter) locally on the cray was
more efficient in *programmer time* than ftp'ing the file from the cray,
editing locally on your workstation, and ftp'ing it back.  And, yes,
programmer time is still very expensive.

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