Compilers and IDEs are resource intensive pieces of software and VS is over twenty years old. I can imagine innumerable opportunities over the years to increase

Compilers and IDEs are resource intensive pieces of software and VS is over twenty years old. I can imagine innumerable opportunities over the years to increase performance by assuming the size of certain variables in memory. That kind of stuff would have been a big deal when compiling C++ on a 333mhz processor.