4 ms·

Well, if not an IDE they might have running Photoshop in the background. Or some other resource hungry software.

• icebraining 15y ago
  Or even worse, they might not have a huge software running, but the small updaters, toolbars, anti-malware monitors, hardware 'managers' and all that crap can add up pretty quickly. It's not rare for me to see applications running faster on my meager single-core 1.6GHz laptop than on considerably faster machines, only because they don't have to compete as much.
  • shabble 15y ago
    I wonder if anyone out there does actually test in a browser with 19 toolbars, virus scanners which intercept every read() call, and bonzibuddy?
    • ajarmoniuk 15y ago
      and 4 viruses concurrently trying to connect to their respective master nodes?
• mark-r 15y ago
  Like a virus scanner. Or a virus.