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Hi,We recommend that you don't run your antivirus concurrently with other CPU- and HDD-intensive software. What words can I use for 'intensive' in this context?(1) CPU-critical?(2) CPU-demanding?Looking forward to your suggestions!mus-te

Enoon · Accepted Answer

"CPU-critical" does not necessarily mean that the program uses a high percentage of CPU time, it means that it will not run well on less capable CPUs for whatever reason, such as no threading or a single core. That probably means that it will in reality max out the time, but it doesn't say that.

"CPU-demanding" is not a valid construction.

The only substitute I can think of for "intensive" in the hyphenated form you want to use is "hogging": "CPU- and HDD-hogging software." That is quite informal, though, and unsuitable for technical writing.

Paeez · Answer

Hi enoon,
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enoon"CPU-critical"

About the question. I don't know if you know these, but I'll say them. Perhaps you could find good words to describe them.
CPU is a resource for an operating system, which is, as you probably know, the manager of applications and resources. Some resources are called Critical Resources in some situations. CPU is not usually critical, but when there is a queue, it is critical!
And OS has to manage them to avoid the applications, which ask for resources, do not go to starve. Still, it is unlikely that a hyphenated phrase like that tells this story.

enoonThat probably means that it will in reality max out the time, but it doesn't say that.

Any Antivirus, no matter how powerful, misses some files to check. That is why they have schedule list to quick scan or full scan, and they might give warning, if you hadn't check for a period of time. (It have another more serious reason! The recent update might have new definition which by them a previous clean file consider as a threat). Anyway, it might arise risks of being infected.

Those were information might help you, enoon, to find a better word, but I have heard "-intensive", about programs which uses that resource in a great amount. However, rarely! The documents I have read describe such attributes with a clause not a hyphenated adjective.

Enoon · Answer

I think "intensive" is the right word.

I think that not many Westerners realize that y'all are mountain folk. I think we tend to lump you in with the desert lowlanders.

Paeez · Answer

Once I talked to an Indonesian student, who think we live in a desert!

Mostly eastern and south-eastern of Iran is desert. When US attacked Iraq with self-guided missiles, not ballistics. Iran let them use Iran airspace, because Iraq is quite flat and the missiles use terrain recognition systems, so missiles go on low altitude over Iran's mountains. Of course, neither US people nor Iranian people know that.

Here is the map:(media.photobucket.com/image/recent/persiansun84/Iran/iran-map.jpg) Dasht-e-Kavir and Dasht-e-Lut are the only deserts. I had an American teacher, from Colorado, who lives in Tehran. She said that deserts of Iran is hotter than US, but the terrains are alike.
The other areas are mountains, and the shores of the seas are very thick forests, because humidity trapped between seas and mountains. And mountain areas are quite fertile.

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