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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:15:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Richard Heller <rheller@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/editors.html
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.961011101346.22285A-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610110209.WAA22619@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>

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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Richard Heller wrote:

> Emacs takes a long time (about 10 seconds) to start up on my computer.  I'm
> running a 486/66 with 32M of ram.  What would cause it to start so slow?

emacs is a huge program, that needs dynamic loading support from about a
dozen different shared libraries.  That's what takes so long, all that
relinking.  Try Xemacs, it takes even longer to start up!

> 
> Thanks,
> Rich
> 
> 

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