Bug 189999 [PropertiesView] [PropertiesView] Setting 1 value causes very slow recursive refresh
I have a properties with a hierarchy. Everything is read-only except for the leaf nodes. Setting a value takes about 5 seconds on my Core2Duo and seems to have possibly gotten even slower in RC2. This stems from the call to PropertySheetEntry.refreshFromRoot in the setValue method. Why should 1 value cause a total refresh? If other values were dependent, shouldn't they have listeners? This is a big problem for me as it will be very hard for my users to be productive with such a slow interface. I realize its late to get something in for 3.3. If there is a workaround, I would really like to know about it so I don't have to reimplement the property view.
bundles/org.eclipse.ui.views/src/org/eclipse/ui/views/properties/PropertySheetViewer.java
};
    }
    /**
     * Creates a new tree item, sets the given entry or category (node)in
     * its user data field, and adds a listener to the node if it is an entry.
     * 
     * @param node
     *            the entry or category associated with this item
     * @param parent
     *            the parent widget
     * @param index
     *            indicates the position to insert the item into its parent
     */
    private void createItem(Object node, Widget parent, int index) {
        
        TreeItem item;
        if (parent instanceof TreeItem) {
			item = new TreeItem((TreeItem) parent, SWT.NONE, index);
		} else {
			item = new TreeItem((Tree) parent, SWT.NONE, index);
		}
        
        item.setData(node);
        
        if (node instanceof IPropertySheetEntry) {
			((IPropertySheetEntry) node)
                    .addPropertySheetEntryListener(entryListener);
		}
        
        if (node instanceof IPropertySheetEntry) {