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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:53:26 +0100
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Mats Lidell (Mats.Lidell@contactor.se) wrote:
> >>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
>     Hrv> For some reason I'm afraid this would make XEmacs a champion
>     Hrv> at slowness.  
> 
> You might be right but I use an X-server on NT all day long an have
> lots of CPU-cycles over for running other tasks locally. I don't see
> why XEmacs couldn't be one of them and that it would perform well.

I don't know about NT, but XEmacs currently has performance problems
on Unix/X.  Running it in a different environment through an emulation
package (X calls being emulated with Windows API calls) might make it
unbearably slow.  Or it might not -- it just looks that way to me.

Of course, you can always come up with hardware that anything will run
smoothly on, but that's not the point.

>     Hrv> Furthermore, XEmacs already supports the ideas of how to
>     Hrv> support different window systems.  "Supporting" NT by using
>     Hrv> an X server seems like nothing more than a kludge.
> Well I don't claim this would be an ideal solution in the long
> run. Clearly a native port is what we want.

Furthermore, GNU Emacs has proven that this is quite doable.  I wonder
how much time it took them to do it.

P.S.
XEmacs on win* issues are irrelevant to me at the moment, but I'd
still like to see it on those "OS"-es, as it would largely increase
the base of users.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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Then...  his face does a complete change of expression.  It goes from
a "Vengeance is mine" expression, to a "What the fuck" blank look.

