Well an IDE with less features <i>is</i> going to be faster than VS, that isn&#x27;t a question. Just see Sublime Text, insanely fast until you start adding extensions and it gradually gets slower and slower.<p>But Resharper is an absolute hog. For as slow as Visual Studio can be, it quadruples it in all categories. Just look in this thread, you can see dozens of people saying the same thing: Resharper has massive performance problems.