Performance of Eclipse GEF/Draw2D for graphs with many nodes

Question

How does drawing large (10.000 nodes) graphs perform when using Eclipse GEF or Draw2D? The nodes can be drawn very simplistic (a circle); no labels and stuff.

Is using GEF/Draw2D feasible for this task?

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but it is very easy to test.

Take a look at Zest, which is a graphing toolkit based on draw2d. There are some useful snippets provided. You can take one of those snippets, multiply the number of nodes drawn to 10K and see how it performs. From my experience with Zest, you should be up and running very quickly.