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Michael A. Petonic
mikep at ism780c.isc.com
Wed Aug 17 22:59:07 AEST 1988
In article <11873 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1988Aug10.203225.26885 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> woods at gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>| It get's one of the lowest "hog" factors from sar on 386/ix.
>
> Be careful of the hog factor on editors. The speed of the user and the
>use of macros can allow use of a lot of CPU in a short time. This might
>make an argument for an editor which didn't have macros or repeated
>command, since it would slow the user.
Wait a minute. That's like saying: ``Might as well be editing with
"ed" since it would slow the user.''
-MikeP
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