[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Virtual Table Buffering?

["David Kyle" <davidk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

The SWT Table is trying to allocate millions of TableItem objects. 
SWT.VIRTUAL relates to your data model and not the UI component. You use 
SWT.VIRTUAL when it is expensive to load all of the data model. It is a 
common misunderstanding.

Take a look at the Eclipse Nebula project. The CompositeTable could be of 
help to you. It is designed to work with millions of rows with minimal UI 
usage and it supports a virtual data model. It is limited to less than two 
hundred columns. It only allocates UI objects for the rows that are visible.

        http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/

We run into these sorts of size and performance limitations all the time. We 
don't consider a file to be big until its a few hundred gigabytes in size.

David
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