It is faster to run the twitter web interface with a debugger on the side, GC'ing tweets manually, than running it vanilla.
Built a site on an old AMD Sempron once. Experienced friend who tested for me was like "omg I didn't know JS based sites could be so fast".
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Developing on that toaster, I felt the pain instantly when my code was being slow. So I optimized all the stupid and slow parts out.
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Twitter is the battery killer
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