Vassil Nikolov  <vnikolov@pobox.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) said:
| > On my laptop, Vi (nvi-1.79) takes 0.83 s to
| > start up & exit the first time; only 7 ms thereafter!!
| 
|   Is that faster than `ed'?
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Not even close! The "ed" program takes only ~1 ms to start up & exit
[mode of 500 runs]. Though note that when I run Vi [as "ex"] 500 times
in a row, it takes only ~5 ms, so "ed" is really "only" 5x faster at
startup.

But seriously, any startup time less than ~100ms is negligible to
a human, so who cares?  ;-}


-Rob

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