8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
1:57 a.m.
McIlroy:
[vi] was so excesssive right from the start that I
refused to use it.
Sam was the first screen editor that I deemed worthwhile, and I
still use it today.
Paulsen:
my sam build is more than 2 times bigger than Gunnar
Ritter's vi
(or Steve Kirkendall's elvis) and even bigger than Bram Moolenaar's vim.
% wc -c /bin/vi bin/sam bin/samterm
1706152 /bin/vi
112208 bin/sam
153624 bin/samterm
These mumbers are from Red Hat Linux.
The 6:1 discrepancy is understated because
vi is stripped and the sam files are not.
All are 64-bit, dynamically linked.