"Windows 95 was 30 MB" is such an ignorant, obnoxious, trite take. a triple buffered framebuffer (which you want for smooth scrolling) for my 4K display is 70 MB in *pixels alone*. Obviously a complete webpage with precomposed textures would take more.https://twitter.com/julienPauli/status/1042113172143067138 …
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They clearly don't use emacs on a day to day basis. I love it but make a line longer than 250 chars and that gap buffer implementation slows it to a crawl
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Gap buffer is a bad design, but there's no excuse for long lines.
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And FYI I do use emacs on a daily basis. This is nothing like nonsensical comparisons with Win95 which is unusable. Emacs is a maintained piece of software with ongoing nice developments.
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But why is it a choice between low input latency and low memory consumption, for a *web browser* ? Why is displaying web pages so difficult that you need precomposed textures in order to get reasonable speed? That is the point of grouchy people like the article's author and me.
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