We end up calling setUpLayout() quite a few times and, in
particular, every time we add a new tab. Even if the tab
widget is hidden, we set the layout item margins to ensure
that whatever layout will contain the tab widget can get
the proper sizing.
For all practical purposes, layout item margins don't depend
on the contents itself, but are rather a simple constant
returned by the style. This means that QStyleOptionTabWidgetFrame
::tabBarSize, among a few other properties, is not needed
right away. This property in particular is quite expensive
to compute because it requires measuring the text size of each
tab. This can lead to a quadratic behavior: the size of each
tab's text will be computed for each tab we add. Besides, text
size computing has become a relatively expensive function in
itself (see QTBUG-53151, for example).
The current solution just uses a partially initialized style
option object for the sole purpose of getting the tab widget's
layout item margins from the style. The performance improvements
detailed show the creation time for QTabWidget with the specified
amount of tabs (times in ms):
Tabs Before After
-------------------
1 6 5
5 6 6
10 8 6
50 57 17
100 178 21
200 673 33
Task-number: QTBUG-55126
Change-Id: I79505dbd0014f6ed185da28047d8b68f9462ba94
Reviewed-by: Richard Moe Gustavsen <richard.gustavsen@qt.io>
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