Re: Slow gnome-contacts startup

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

> Sorry to keep spamming the list like this, but I have discovered some
> more on my quest to make gnome-contacts start up faster. Yes its
> really true, the list Gnome got from my Gmail account really does
> contain 1402 contacts!

1402 contacts is much, but i don't think its unreasonable for us to
handle.

> This line seems to take an unreasonable amount of time, per contact:
>           this.add_contact (new Contact (this, new_individual));
>
>
> It seems to me that the Contact constructor might be too expensive.
> I'll try profiling.

This triggers the creation of the widgets in the list too, maybe its
blocking on reading the icon or something?