On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 19:53, Adam Thornton wrote: > Reading email shouldn't take much CPU, although if you insist on doing > it inside UltraWhizzy > K/Gnome/Mozilla/MultiMediaMailReaderNowWithGratuitousAnimation!!! then > it can find a way, I'm sure, to burn CPU.
Even that is mostly RAM and I/O heavy (in terms of the weak PC disk subsystems). When I tested this with some CPU speed setting stuff at about 800Mhz evolution simply stopped getting any faster. That's actually very much the market pitch of one of the CPU vendors now (VIA)
