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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by gaius on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:12AM (#1752831)
Tell me about it. TOAD takes more resources to run on my PC than Oracle. Same with Eclipse.

I remember when people joked that Emacs was a memory hog "eight megs and constantly swapping".

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by pjscott on Sunday October 03, 2010 @01:07PM (#1753073)
There were more:

Eventually Mallocs All Computer Storage.

Emacs Makes A Computer Slow.

About the only one that's still true now is this:

Escape Meta Alt Control Shift.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by leif on Sunday October 03, 2010 @07:12PM (#1753944)
Only once did I see emacs malloc all of my ram, but it did it on the server and crashed it. No clue what happened, but I barely got top open to see it happen before the kernel panicked.

A once-in-a-lifetime experience though, I start the emacs server on boot so I can start clients much faster, which means it's always running as long as my computer is on, and it's never had any issues other than that one time.

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