Recently a customer showed me the application of our competitor that is based on c-map chart engine. It was amazingly fast when moving arround the map (zooming, panning, etc), bud not slightly faster, I mean orders of magnitude faster than our MapSuite based applications (both WPF and WinForms).
Even ussing TileCache the navigation arround the map is not as smooth as with other gis tools such as google maps, openlayers, etc, what I cannot understand knowing that in our case the map tiles is precached in the local drive while openlayers streams it from the internet.
Seeing that the most voted feature at ThinkGeo Enhancement Tracker back in 2011 was preciselly Improve rendering performance, do you have any plan to improve the component architecture in any way to speed it up? (in addition to all you already done till now, that I have to admit is a lot since version 4.0 when we purchased first time the dev license)
Do you have an idea how is it possible c-map is so lightning fast in comparison?
As aside question but related to the previous, some times when moving arround the map, maybe in uncached zones, but some times even in cached ones, the main thread gets frozzen for a few seconds, and pausing the execution at this point VS shows the stack is in WpfMap internal methods. Have anybody else experienced this?
Regards,
Carlos