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by frik 3376 days ago
> Because that blinking colon and the constantly-updating time were killing our benchmark numbers.

Like Visual Studio Code uses 12% CPU in idle due to cursor blinking? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014

In comparison the Windows Shell (up to Win7) is a lot more efficient and coded in C/C++.