Re: A thought on Windows Experience

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 07/12/13 16:52, David Kastrup wrote:
> The last time I thought that was when I wanted to compare how much worse
> Emacs fared when using it for working on LaTeX files compared to a
> specialized simple text editor called Kile or something.
>
> Emacs hit in at over 16MB with my current work session (granted,
> containing quite more than just a LaTeX file).
>
> Then I started Kile and it swallowed about 90MB of memory, mostly
> because it pulled in half a dozen libraries and demons, getting those
> KDE parts up that it needed for operation.
>
> Don't underestimate specialized simple text editors.

Indeed, but still small fry compared to what Lilypond can eat up on some scores 
:-)