That's not true for me. I'm forced to use older computers and/or virtual machines over overloaded networks. I had to recompile Emacs with -O3 and other optimization switches to get barely decent performance on the latest versions of Emacs. That's why I've switching a lot between Emacs and Vim recently.
Honestly, I think you need to check your distro's emacs setup. Most of the time the crappy slowness comes from all kinds of badly written elisp modules that you really don't need (which is the wrong way to do it anyway). If you just load the pure emacs image, it's VERY zippy.
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That's not true for me. I'm forced to use older computers and/or virtual machines over overloaded networks. I had to recompile Emacs with -O3 and other optimization switches to get barely decent performance on the latest versions of Emacs. That's why I've switching a lot between Emacs and Vim recently.
Honestly, I think you need to check your distro's emacs setup. Most of the time the crappy slowness comes from all kinds of badly written elisp modules that you really don't need (which is the wrong way to do it anyway). If you just load the pure emacs image, it's VERY zippy.