On Thursday 30 March 2006 4:12, George Staikos wrote: > What do you think the slowness is from? If there is XMLGUI involved > here, I suspect the XML parsing for sure. I'm not 100% sure (I was profiling wall-clock time by instrumenting the method), but I assume it's in KTrader. It's noticeably slower the first time it's used on a given type, which would fit with KTrader caching plugins (which I think I remember...). From there it has to do service menu creation and so on. -Scott -- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.