Never mind, it turns out that I just needed to set my system to "performance" mode so that it doesn't scale down the CPU clock speed (the apps were running at idle priority). :-)
Thus, this is NOT a bug, please delete it! Thanks! -- cpu-intensive apps run slowly in hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210953 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs