Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 27 May 1996 17:14:47 -0700
From:      "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org>
To:        Mike Eggleston <mikee@sys8.wfc.com>
Cc:        stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: editors 
Message-ID:  <199605280014.RAA23155@antares.aero.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 May 1996 05:42:43 PDT." <9605241242.AA02226@sys8.wfc.com> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> There has never been a faster editor [than vi].

Well, when we benchmarked the Rand editor against vi, the Rand editor
read in a file four times as fast as vi, and when we read in a file, changed
one character, and wrote it out again, the Rand editor was twice as
fast as vi.  This was some years ago; I don't know if the buffer-management
code in vi has been rewritten since then.

Mike O'Brien



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199605280014.RAA23155>