[shrikant]

Baffling to see this, in every place I've worked at that used Lotus Notes, it was an absolute dog on the system. Clunky, slow, and ground everything else to a halt. And this was the case even on a relatively modern laptop in 2019. Not what I'd call performant at all!

[sk5t]

Notes was simple enough to allow folks with no computer science background or even sympathy for the machine to build teetering, badly-performing things.

However, even with a mind towards efficiency and minimalism, performance at roughly hundreds of thousands of documents was extremely elusive.