I'm suprised at FR's development team addressing the performance issue. I'm even more surprised at the improvements made when testing out the alpha. Started up the FR and saw the memory at 9mb. Refreshing all feeds brings it up to 80mb. After a few minutes it drops down to 4mb. Very impressed at the memory savings. I dunno if that was the intentional plan for performance addressed but none the less I am very impressed. what I find strange is how it keeps jumping from 60-78mb then back to 4mb. No matter, aslong as it stays low thereafter from updating the feeds, I'm very happy with the low ram usage. Though I use 2gb, having less memory hog apps is a plus for me. Thanks for the continued work and development FR team and I can't wait for the beta then final.
3.12 alpha code seemed to cause system slowdown
After having the 3.12 alpha code installed for over a week, I noticed it seemed to be causing a system slowdown with a lot of constant I/O activity. Other than that, it seemed to work without a problem on my Windows XP SP2 system.