Performance of Silverlight Datagrid in Silverlight 3 vs Silverlight 4 on a mac
- by Simon
I'm using Silverlight Beta 4 for a LOB application.
After finding out today that I'll have to wait perhaps 4 months to be able to develop with SL4 on Visual Studio 2010 I'm thinking I need to downgrade my application to SL3 but thats another question.
The problem is I'm noticing absolutely abismal performance for simple datagrids that work just fine on a PC when I'm running on a Mac. These grids contain only 5-10 columns and maybe 50 rows. Paging up and down takes about 1-2 seconds sometimes.
I would appreciate anybody's experience in which of the following is the best solution:
reverting to Silverlight 3 and hoping DataGrid is faster
switching to 3rd party datagrid such as Telerik
forgetting silverlight altogether
I was hoping that possibly SL4 runtime might be updated but that won't happen probably for 3-4 months.
Just a reminder - this is specifically a mac issue. Performance on my PC while slightly slow to populate the grid initially is fine.