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by swiftcoder 19 days ago
> In immediate mode, none of that matters. You don't have a parallel widget tree.

No, instead, you need to have your entire dataset in memory, and potentially rebuild your whole tree on every update. This causes quite a lot of problems for out-of-core datasets - you end up needing to maintain proxies for things like items in scrollable lists that aren't loaded into memory yet.

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> you need to have your entire dataset in memory

Are we talking about displaying tables with billions of entries? I'd like you to show me how retained mode gui scales well with that use case.