From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: program to compute gears, with table Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 21:46:27 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86efrfpsdo.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86bmmlu54a.fsf@zoho.com> <86pob1rsbx.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504986642 27084 195.159.176.226 (9 Sep 2017 19:50:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 19:50:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 09 21:50:38 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dqllo-0006Bi-Au for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 21:50:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50673 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqllv-0000GS-Hq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 15:50:31 -0400 X-Received: by 10.28.140.199 with SMTP id o190mr466204wmd.6.1504986393553; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 12:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!e64no730451wmi.0!news-out.google.com!r2ni20090wmb.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,rec.bicycles.tech Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help,rec.bicycles.tech Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: XiPr5pdukK7aCRjr/wfS1Q.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:J2Ra4WSvqElpCAhl83uBdtJBliM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220112 rec.bicycles.tech:1003647 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114218 Archived-At: Joerg wrote: > Wow, you must be able to type at hundreds of > letter a second. Here, it takes less than > 2sec for Excel to start. Mostly only a split > second to open the file because I usually > have it running nearly all the time. But it is faster to feed data into a shell tool, hit RET and have the result outputted. And yes, programmers type very quickly indeed. On a general note, if you care about time (the perception thereof) you should throw the computer into a rock wall and be done with it. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573