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Originally Posted by NullNix
I've found it slow in one single situation: at startup, on a machine with spinning-rust disk that has not previously run any Qt 5 applications since boot. This is not Calibre's fault: it's just that Qt 5 is *huge*, and faulting in the parts of it used by Calibre can take quite a long time. I doubt this is practically fixable: nor, with the increasing prevalence of SSD with its zero seek time, are people particularly motivated to fix it.
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I find mechanical HDDs to be a bottleneck in most software I use (web browsers, office suites, etc).
Atom and Zacate were notable cases since I was *already* using decent SSDs on those builds so the bottleneck was really the CPU.