On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Twisted Theory
<twisted.theory.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am constructing an application that draws rooted trees (graphs with a
> distinguished 'first' node) by creating an NSView subclass for each node and
> adding them as subviews of the graph view.
>
> There is a big problem when the number of nodes in the tree is large: adding
> the subviews takes a very long time.  For example, one of my trees has
> around 60,000 nodes.  It takes about 1.5 seconds to create all of the
> objects, and about 200 seconds to add them as subviews.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to speed the process up?  Multithreading didn't
> really improve matters.

As always, profile the code first, see what's slow, and then you can
see what area you need to target to make it faster.

Mike
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