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How does it do with large datasets, say 5k rows+?

There are lots of table alternatives out there, but most croak when you start working with 1000's of rows.

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same question. if it works well, i'll definitely use it instead of my own frankenstein hackery

EDIT: seems like no go: 500 rows take ~10sec to render

http://jsfiddle.net/JKg33/

caution: will freeze firefox while rendering

I am the dev of the plugin. Thanks for the info, I will try to address that. Notice that the performance is much better when you turn off row/col headers.

    rowHeaders: false,
    colHeaders: false,

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/JKg33/2/

That is the newest feature and I am sure it can be optimised.

It would be the best if you could help me with the plugin by issueing a ticket in GitHub. I do this for my own startup (www.giraffeapp.com) and I have to split time between this and other tasks.

The best way I've seen this problem solved is via using a viewport, where you only render what is visible at the time.

SlickGrid does this very well, but they don't have the Excel-like features that biz people fawn over.

Neat! FYI: "minSpareRows: 0" doesn't work as expected. (Still shows 1 spare row.

UPDATE: I have just made some optimizations for large grids. Please try again the same fiddle now (clear your cache) http://jsfiddle.net/JKg33/

Still there is some work to be done but it is much faster now.

Editing row 500 in chrome melts it as well...

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