Emacs and vi: efficiency

[Matt Crawford]

>In article <539 at goanna.oz> wjb at goanna.oz (Warwick Bolam) writes:
>>Does anyone have any figures on the resources required by vi and
>>emacs?  On our system (Vax11/750, 4.2BSD) emacs runs very slowly
>>and consumes lots of cpu.

To attempt to settle the editor wars* here, I tracked usage of
emacs and vi for a month.  The ratio of (cpu time)/(elapsed time)
was the same for each, to within 3%.  Make of that what you will.
This was on an 11/780 under 4.2.

(*) The vi faction wanted emacs to be removed from the system!
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