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Following @saqimtiaz’s advice (found here) I tried rewriting a single $list that generated hundreds of $buttons and converted them <span> elements – another to <a> elements. I was quite astonished at the difference. I’m talking about the kind of delay that causes a “Hmm – that’s slow” being entirely eradicated.

@saqimtiaz

Eventcatcher and really long lists
When dealing with very long lists, using the $eventcatcher widget can help to vastly simplify the widget tree and improve both render and refresh performance.

Also, in a comment further into the thread…

Some thoughts on performance

In TiddlyWiki if you think you need $button widgets, it is because you want to be able to click on something to invoke actions. As an example imagine a long list generated by a $list widget that creates a button for each list item: <$list filter="...."> <$button tag="div" class="myclass" actions=<<myactions>> /> </$list> Alternatively you can do something along these lines, which tells the $eventcatcher to listen for clicks inside DIVs with the class “myclass” and invoke actions in response. …