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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by bigbubba on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:33PM (#25130824)
I suppose I've not tried it in any sort of extreme scenario, but it's not clear to me what dired would be slow at. Functions like copy-file are implemented in C.
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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by apjana on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:07PM (#25131132)
My response was from from emacs perspective. Here's a memory usage comparison: https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...

Looks like emacs uses at least double the memory.

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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by bigbubba on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:16PM (#25131198)
I guess, but I think somebody using dired would be using Emacs anyway, and dired is unlikely to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by apjana on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:20AM (#25134319)
Completely agree.
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