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So, after all the optimization, they're using 6% of the CPU to display what amounts to a tiny animated GIF that 1990s PCs would have no problem with.

But it's vector graphics!, you might say. Yeah, like Flash, which ran fine on Pentium II, with plenty CPU cycles to spare.

Pardon me, and I don't say it lightly, but... WTF?!

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Yeah author congratulating themselves at the end because their note app is only using hundreds of millions of cycles every seconds, to do essentially nothing...

I do miss flash, but we shall not forget that the performance boost came from low level access to the system (which made it a security risk).

I strongly doubt its ability to render a fast rounded rectangle needed that.

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