Re: launch a program in an arbitrary frame

[Emanuel Berg]

Hikaru Ichijyo <ichijyo@macross.sdf.jp> writes:

> But you're right -- by today's standards, it's
> a very thin application. On my system, it launches
> in about one second, even with all the stuff I've
> got in my ~/.emacs. Everything is nearly instant,
> and if anything ever causes system-wide problems,
> you can be sure it's never Emacs.
>
> It's gone from being regarded as a monstrosity to
> a model citizen desktop application, all just
> because everything else got go bloated
> in comparison.

This is all confusing! It is better to not use words
like "thin", "bloated" etc. What does it mean?

My Emacs binary, /usr/bin/emacs24-nox, is
13625528 bytes, or ~13M. The emacs24 package in the
Debian repos is, uncompressed, 17.8 M. The software
itself is very powerful and feature-rich.

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