Upgrade to v/8.8 from v/7.x - Impairs Live Audio Playback

I was not actively operating anything within 1Password, but it was installed and running in the background - dialog panel closed. OS is Catalina 10.15.7 on a 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel i7, 32 GB RAM.

What appears to happen is that you periodically grab all the CPU's for too long, which causes a system overload during audio playback. That outage occurred about every 10-20 sec with Logic Pro playback. OTOH, during YouTube playback the audio was completely corrupted with stutter to the point where no dialog could actually be discerned in the playback.

So between you and Google, these apps are being very greedy with the CPU.

I verified that once I shut down 1Password the system returned to normal behavior. I have since gone back to 1Password 7. I am not familiar with Electron technology, but it appears to be very greedy. CPU utilization was not overly high. So it seems to be a matter of CPU lockout for too long an interval, too often.

For me, all I need is a secure vault for all my passwords. Nothing very fancy. So 1Password 7 is fine for me.

(Er, perhaps the issue is not Electron per se, but rather your attempt to prevent some of the HeartBleed problems with the Intel architecture?)