Why is the ASP.NET/Visual Studio Web Development Server so slow?

Question

(xkcd)

I know that compiling nowadays is much faster than it was before. Yet, for me, it se

Answer 1

On Visual Studio 2012 + Win10 x64, i've noticed that if you

• go to the taskbar and find the asp.net dev server there,
• right click it and do a "show details"
• close the box (NOT 'stop', just close via 'x')

then the server loads almost instantly