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For every added Trackview/Mixerstrip, Ardour looks up GUI properties which
results in a total of 13 calls for the initial default items per track:
("height", "visible", "layer-display", "strip-width")
Since the tracks don't yet exist, the properties don't either.
Every lookup result in iterating over all all XMLNotes and for every
"Object". ->property ("id") and ->value () allocates memory.
Adding 64 tracks to an empty session results in 528293 string
allocations and deallocations in XMLNode::property() taking ~30%
of the track creation time.
This commit XMLnode's const method to prevent memory allocation
and caches a pointer to the XMLNode* to skip iterating over object
state.
Please see the Ardour web site at http://ardour.org/ for all documentation..
For information on building ardour:
http://ardour.org/development.html