Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:53:40 +0100
From: Berke Durak <obdurak at free.fr>
To: Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
Cc: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Inserting rows into GTree.tree_store is slow
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:32:16AM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> I have a program which loads a file and inserts around 25,000 rows
> into a GTree.tree_store model.  This process takes about 10 minutes.
> I had initially blamed the (OCaml-based) loading and parsing code, but
> now that I come to analyse it, it turns out that the OCaml code is
> almost instantaneous (no suprise there!) but inserting the rows into
> the GTree.tree_store is what is taking all the time.
> 
> I'm wondering if there is a particular reason for this.  Is it just
> that the underlying C model is slow, or could it be the OCaml
> bindings?  Are there good ways to "bulk insert" lots of rows into a
> tree_store?
> 
> Rich.

Hello,

I know CList is obsolete, but it runs quite fast.  For instance inserting
34,030 rows takes about 5 seconds on a PIV at 2,4GHz in xara (native code).
-- 
Berke Durak