Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!utah-gr!utah-cs!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!ism780c!mikep From: mikep@ism780c.isc.com (Michael A. Petonic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: jove Message-ID: <13799@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 17 Aug 88 12:59:07 GMT References: <282@lclark.UUCP> <24356@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1988Aug10.203225.26885@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <11873@steinmetz.ge.com> Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 17 In article <11873@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >In article <1988Aug10.203225.26885@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods) writes: >| It get's one of the lowest "hog" factors from sar on 386/ix. > > Be careful of the hog factor on editors. The speed of the user and the >use of macros can allow use of a lot of CPU in a short time. This might >make an argument for an editor which didn't have macros or repeated >command, since it would slow the user. Wait a minute. That's like saying: ``Might as well be editing with "ed" since it would slow the user.'' -MikeP -- Michael A. Petonic mikep@ism780c.isc.com ``When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby?''