[kenny11]

This argument makes me smile as someone who is old enough to remember when Emacs stood for "eight megabytes and constantly swapping".

[mcpackieh]

The old GNU mentality of ignoring performance optimization because computer hardware would catch up eventually actually did pay off.

[yaantc]

Same here ;) But now there's "8 GB and constantly swapping": Eclipse! I logged once on a dev server to test something, it was slow and I checked what was going on. On this 64 GB machine, 8 Eclipse users, each Eclipse using a tad over 8 GB, led to significant swapping. What a world!