I'd look at doing some server side sorting if you are looking for speed... it's a lot of work for the plugin to sort the client side data and then redraw 400 rows of data
On Apr 9, 3:09 pm, csi95 <bmomal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've just started using tablesorter for one of my projects, and overall I > love it. Does just what I need. > > The one issue I've come across is that it's S-L-O-W! On a small table, it's > just fine. Once I get up to about 400 rows, however, it takes a long time. > 6 seconds before the list appears sorted, and another 10 seconds before I > actually regain control of the browser (Firefox 3.08 / Win32 in this case). > > Is this normal? Should it really take that long to sort 400 rows of data? > > I could understand if it were 4,000 rows, but 400 doesn't seem like much. > In fact it would probably be quicker to just do a round-trip to the server > and let the database do the sorting. > > I'm looking for some practical experience and / or suggestions from anyone > who may be working with tablesorter on large tables. > > Thanks! > > - Bryan > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/tablesorter-Speed-issues-tp22977435s27240p22977... > Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
