Performance hit with a large amount of polygons for displaying thunderstorms etc

[Alexander_Johannesen]

I made some suggestion in this recent post about entity management and performance tricks, maybe some of them could help;

Combine multiple primitives into a single entity

I mean, I think the real answer to your question is to try it out. Some things are well optimized within the entity API, other things are better handled by your own primitive implementation, and so it is with this as it is with so many other things; it depends. It depends on what you want to control and change in your entities. For example, for a large group (let’s pick some numbers; 600 points, 300 polygons, 200 labels) of entities my experience is that show and hide are super-f…

Cheers,

Alex