[Qgis-user] large ogr layers slow to load

[Giovanni Manghi]

> I have observed this from the point of view of two different graphical 
> tools displaying vector data and using the same GDAL binary. QGIS is 
> much slower than a simple renderer, I suspect that QGIS spends more time 
> because of its complex visualization possibilities (which assumably have 
> become more complex since version 1.7).

This slowness has been reported in the past months, especially when
editing, but meanwhile a few optimizations have been made and now it
should be much more better.

Did you tested the latest development version, soon to be 1.8?

cheers

-- Giovanni --