On 04.12.2014 10:04, G. Allegri wrote: > QtXml is really, damn slow. PyQt with QtXml is worst then lxml, just to > make a comparison. Switching to a streamlined xml parser would be > advisable, but I know it would a deep refactoring for a lot of QGIS's code. > Maybe it should be considered within the next big refactorings (geometry, > composer, etc.), but it won't be easy to find a sponsor specifically for > this... > Do we have a real-world example of where we hit this performance issue?
Considering a sponsor: it might be packaged in a proposal of a native project file format that also supports storing layers. That requires an abstraction of the project file and has a new feature that usually makes it easier to find funds. Matthias _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer