Here's a Windows fun fact
Here's a Windows fun fact
Here's a Windows fun fact
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Even for Windows, as shit as it is, this seems hard to believe.
Yeah, the only thing I could imagine would be that image loading/processing uses an optimized library, but a single color is (unlikely but possibly) implemented poorly as a loop over every pixel, with some egregious overhead.
Most likely shit post though... See reply, apparently real!
The reply is obviously a joke, but the original issue is true (credit):
TIL, thanks! Edited my earlier comment.