Quote - The thing is, you WANT rendering to use 100% of available CPU.  There is no philosophical argument that makes rendering slower preferable to rendering faster, to me.

Of course you want rendering to use %100 of the cpu, I am not arguing that- what you do want though is your your program to use it efficiently without memory leaks or bugs. 

I never stated that I wanted a slower render, obviously we all want faster renders.

Anyway, I am done with this argument - we could go in circles forever.  I suppose my logic argument is a bit flawed- instead of less resource intensive, I should have said more efficient use of resources- whatever- great discussion though, but I will not change my mind on Poser being an inefficient resource hog.