Why Are Minimized Programs Often Slow to Open Again?

It seems particularly counterintuitive: you minimize an application because you plan on returning to it later and wish to skip shutting the application down and restarting it later, but sometimes maximizing it takes even longer than launching it fresh. What gives? via Pocket http://www.howtogeek.com/174311/why-are-minimize-programs-often-slow-to-open-again/