Re: GtkTreeView very slow for large lists

[John Lindgren <john lindgren aol com>]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> I only briefly read the other replies, so maybe I'm repeating something
> here. One thing I remember that can speed things up drastically is to
> only associate the model with the tree view once it has all its data.
> AFAIR, populating the model while it's linked to the tree view slows
> things down quite a bit.
>
>   - Jannis

Yes, we follow this practice.  As a "jcupitt" pointed out, what I was
missing was to use "fixed height mode" for the GtkTreeView so that it
doesn't try to calculated the height of every single row.

-- John