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From: John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: 19.15 on cray c90 with unicos
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Steven L. Baur writes:
 > >>>>> "David" == David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU> writes:
 > 
 > David> 	I'm trying to build 19.15 on a c90, and before I go writing m
 > David> and s files, I was wondering if anyone already has some.  Cray ships
 > David> with emacs (19.28), but I don't see appropriate s&m headers in the gnu
 > David> emacs distribution either.  So it's possibly cray internal?
 > 
 > Yes!  I knew there was a way to make XEmacs fast!  :-)

I know you're joking, but...

Remember that although it'll surely be fast, it won't be astounding,
since I'm certain [X]Emacs isn't vectorized at all, which is where
Crays really shine (well, that and memory bandwidth).

In fact, except for the very fastest clock-speed Crays (e.g. the T94
and such), it'll probably feel about the same as on the fast R10k and
fast Alpha machines I've tried (meaning, uh, "quite responsive" :).
That's just my guess.

However, if the stuff to build on UNICOS gets in, I'll be more than
happy to report back on how it feels on a T94... :)

--
John A. Turner         |"Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence;
Los Alamos Natl. Lab.  |  sound is that cup, but empty;
e-mail: turner@lanl.gov|    noise is that cup, but broken."
                       |                        - Robert Fripp

