Read this article to know, how applications fake their performance report.
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/03/11/394249.aspx
Applications by adding part of their work to system start-up, terribly slow the start-up time. This is evil. The user loses time, even if he is not gonna use that application. Applications that want to gain such performance benefit should atleast consider using idle CPU cycles [...]
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Faking the performance
Posted in General, Software Development on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »