Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
- Subject: Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3
- From: Jack Repenning <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:19:36 -0700
On Apr 16, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Steve Checkoway wrote:
That's not a reasonable answer. A glorified text editor should not
require a gigabyte of ram. As computers have gotten faster, computer
programs have required more ram and faster processors. The source
code is no more difficult to edit than it was a decade ago. Writing
text should be a solved problem.
If all you're doing is writing text, Xcode is not the right tool.
There's quite a great deal of "glory" in there to justify the
increased resource usage. Whether there's *enough* glory to justify
*this* *much* resource usage as a more complicated conversation.
If nothing else, look at it this way: I remember a time when Emacs was
considered such a big program people actually got fired for launching
it on a shared machine, and people said *that* "glorified text editor"
was unjustifiably big. Now, with Xcode around to compare to, Emacs is
positively puny!
-==-
Jack Repenning
email@hidden
Project Owner
SCPlugin
http://scplugin.tigris.org
"Subversion for the rest of OS X"
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| | >G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: P Teeson <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Thomas Engelmeier <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: William Bates <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: "Wesley Smith" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Joachim Deelen <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Jeremy Pereira <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: G4 867mhz, Leopard, and XCode 3 (From: Steve Checkoway <email@hidden>) |