Re: Performance issues with large number of divs

Performance is more acceptable when not in Dev mode, but for small
texts, we're looking at the browser hanging for 2-3 seconds while it
renders. Would be keen too, to understand why dev mode is so much
slower!
Chris

On Oct 30, 1:52 pm, Chris <christopher.burr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have this application where I need to display lines of related text
> one under the other. For e.g., the English text would be on top, and
> then the Greek would be below. The text is split into phrases, so for
> example, the Greek is not necessarily in the right word order. All
> that matters is that the meaning of the greek word matches the meaning
> of the english word.
>
> How would you go about displaying this. I decided to go for a div
> containing child divs for each word. Each parent div then floats to
> the left, so that the wrapping of the text at the end of the page is
> maintained.
>
> The problem I have is 2 fold. For even small texts (~600 words), it
> takes a while to generate the correct DOM (600 parent divs at the
> minimum + for 2 lines 1200 child divs!). Are there ways of speeding
> this up? At the moment, I take each word-set as it comes in and render
> the div into the DOM tree. Would it be faster to do everything off the
> DOM and then attach the whole lot at the end? I believe I tried that
> months ago and it didn't seem to help much.
>
> Secondly, I get the impression it takes a while to deserialise the
> response from the server. For e.g. I have a response that is roughly
> 41Kb from the server, and it seems to take approximately 20 seconds to
> deserialise.
>
> All this is in DEV mode. In normal mode things are faster, but still
> not fast enough...
> Any ideas? I have a few thoughts, but I think that fundamentally this
> might just not have a nice solution.

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