I haven't done any testing on performance, but are you using the "opaque" 
property of CALayer? Does that speed it up at all?

On 04/11/2010, at 2:36 PM, Seth Willits wrote:

> 
> renderInContext: can be reeeeally slow (2 seconds to draw a tree into a 
> context). It seems that every CALayer is rendered using a Quartz transparency 
> layer, and I know they're slow from past experience. I'm basically just 
> firing off this email to ask if there's a method to make it a lot faster, or 
> something else I could be doing. Everything that's being drawn (about 80 
> layers), was previously drawn using Quartz very quickly, so I'm hoping 
> there's some way to force renderInContext: to ditch transparency layers or 
> something.
> 

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