I'm wondering why this is on in 3.9, it consumes *lots* of CPU cycles

>> Did some research on this and found nothing until I stumbled across
>> the higherPerformance preference and studied how it was used in the
>> update loop in the code. (It is on by default in 3.9)
>>
>> Turns out that if the preference is turned off the noise disappears.
>> Now working in 3.9 is  a very pleasant experience. Downloaded the
>> latest version of 3.9 today and our project works just fine.

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