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   John Siracusa (siracusa@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 19:03:05 JST John Siracusa

   I just heard someone describe emacs as “a Linux program” which accelerated my process of crumbling to dust.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 19:16:40 JST 翠星石

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     • Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
     @Migueldeicaza I checked the memory usage of emacs and emacs itself uses 6 MiB of memory sitting on the start screen, editing a file or running emacs tetris - so emacs doesn't even use 8 MiB still.
     
     With all the dynamically linked GtK libraries included it works out to ~170MiB of memory, but some of that is cache, plus that isn't really part of emacs - the libraries are in use by other programs already, so launching emacs barely increases the memory used (plus I have ~64 billion bytes of it).
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     Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 (migueldeicaza@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 19:16:41 JST Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

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     @siracusa i remember fondly when people mocked it as bloated “right megabytes and constantly swapping”