[Kstars-devel] Stars drawing (speed and color)

[Khudyakov Alexey]

Hello

After recent fix in star drawing code I looked into it. I think usage of 
QString as keys for cache isn't the best thing to do. I've tried to experiment 
with other indexing schemes. So far I got ~10% speedup for map update with 
maximum star density. Sadly code become harder to read. 


Another problem I spotted is function StarObject::updateColors. It appears
only in commented code in the StarComponent which is marked "REMOVE" [1]
Moreover it doesn't know anything about color modes. 

So question is whether it a historical remnant which should be removed?


[1] skycomponents/starcomponent.cpp:301
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  Khudyakov Alexey