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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: INDEX file on Aminet
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 09:34:24 -0700
- Organization: HP Fort Collins Site
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- In-reply-to: chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk's message of Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:43:22 GMT
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- chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk (Chris Appleton) wrote:
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- > > I'm using 'vi' on a Sparc
-
- > *A few seconds?*
-
- That's because he's using VI. VI is extremely slow to load large files
- due to the way it stores them internally. (I just tried a test here on
- my workstation; emacs was about 14X faster than VI at loading a 1.4 Mb
- text file. VI took 2.8 seconds, emacs took 0.2 seconds).
-
- Or, you could just use "more" or "grep" and not even load the file into
- memory.
-
- - steve
-