Thanks, the reason for putting it on the layout is because useVirtualLayout is not exposed as a public property on Spark Datagrid.
Your answer explains why I didn't see any performance difference, however, isn't it still a bug for a layout not not respect height="100%" when useVirtualLayout='true' ? David -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Flex-Datagrid-MX-vs-Spark-tp9314p9351.html Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.