Is the XUL tree-widget scheduled to get this sort of cleverness added
to it, perhaps as a way to speed up mail/news thread-pane scrolling?
Dan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Waterson) writes:
> Well, that depends. If you're still planning to load the files `all at
> once', then I suspect that it will not improve performance: you'll be
> paying extra overhead of going through a `composite datasource' to merge
> the files back together.
>
> OTOH, if you're going to make your tree widget `clever' so that it
> detects when a file needs to be loaded and loads it lazily (e.g., when
> you open a folder), then yes, I think you'll improve performance. (See
> the `sidebar customization panel' at
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/components/sidebar/resources/
> for an example of how to do this.)
>
> chris
>
> Eric Plaster wrote:
> > I have a very large rdf file that I want to break up into several
> > different files. The question that I have is, will this improve
> > performance in loading and modifing the data? I have it hooked up to
> > a tree, and it seems to take a little while for it load a 500+kb rdf
> > file.
