"According to all known laws of computing, there is no way that #Emacs should be able to edit. Its bytecode engine is just too old to get those fat buffers off the ground. Emacs, of course, edits anyway, because Emacs doesn't care what humans think is impossible."
@technomancy there is a great blog post by one of Google engineers (I think) related to this:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102
@technomancy What is the quote from?
@mwfogleman it's a completely bogus urban legend about bees that's quoted at the beginning of the Bee Movie
@technomancy sidenote: eight megs and constantly swapping jokes mean nothing when browsers can swap like crazy and take up several GB as a result