My apologies, bantha. I changed your word. I thought it was a typo.

Nonetheless, this issue is not an issue for me. I have a modest rig, Core i7 3.4gh, with 8gb RAM, no standalone graphics card, yet even in my little experiment with four fully-loaded V4/Sasha models in the viewport, no lag in posing. [edit to add: no hair on the girls helped!]

The low-poly mesh and subdivision strategy you just explained is a good feature for La Femme.

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