TreeView speedup

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

Good day,

I would to ask if someone got TreeView widget filling in speed really 
improved?

On our side we made 2 improvements:

1. Added function in GTK that fills TreeModel row with values stored in 
GList.
   Test case: 10000 rows with 4 string, 4 int, 4 double, 4 bool columns.
   Model was filled with values in 3-4 x times faster. (1 sec against 4 
sec).

2. Wrote our own simple TextRenderer with "cached" Pango::Layout where 
only text could be changed.
   Test case: 10000 rows with 4 string, 4 int, 4 double, 4 bool columns.
   TreeView was filled with values in 3-4 x times faster. (8-9 sec 
against 30 sec).

Any other suggestions would be welcome.

Machine:
1.2GHz Duron, 256Mb DDR PC2100, MB MS KT256, HDD 40Gb 5000rpm, Video ATI 
Radeon 32Mb.

Regards,
-andrew