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Michael A. Petonic mikep at ism780c.isc.com
Wed Aug 17 22:59:07 AEST 1988


In article <11873 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
 >In article <1988Aug10.203225.26885 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> woods at 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
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Michael A. Petonic				mikep at ism780c.isc.com

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