Dear Monks,

I'd like to hear your suggestions on how to improve speed in the following script (sorry if it is not so clean, but it is a dirty minimization of a big GUI project). The script mimics the insertion of a lot of data in a Tk Tablematrix with some formattings (adaptation of row hight to display all text in cell, coloring of rows, and indentation). The problem is speed and the bottleneck is the routine setHeight. Any pragmatic idea to reduce the loading time (improvements in the subrutine, different approach, etc.)?

use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;
use Tk::Font;
use Tk::TableMatrix;

#look
my $BackgroundTableRow="#D0E1F9";
my $BackgroundTableHeader="red";
my $MainTableIpadx=2;    
my $MainTablePadx=2;

#number of rows to print
my $NumberRows=7000;
our $arrayVar = {};

my $mw = MainWindow->new();

my $MainTable = createTABLE($mw);
createTableRows($MainTable, $NumberRows);
printData($MainTable, $NumberRows);

MainLoop;

sub createTABLE{
    my $mw = shift;
    my $GuiFontData = $mw->Font(-family=> 'Arial', -size  => 12);

    my ($rows,$cols) = (1, 3);
    foreach my $row  (0..($rows-1)){$arrayVar->{"$row,0"} = "$row";}
    foreach my $col  (0..($cols-1)){$arrayVar->{"0,$col"} = "$col";}

    my $MainTable = $mw->Scrolled('TableMatrix',
            -rows => $rows, 
            -cols => $cols,
            -bg=>'white',
            -height => 4, 
            -titlerows => 1, 
            -titlecols => 0,
            -variable => $arrayVar,
            #-browsecommand => \&SelectTableRow,
            -coltagcommand => \&colSub,
            -resizeborders => "none", 
            -wrap=>1,
            -multiline=>1,
            -relief => 'ridge',
            -selecttitles => 0,
            -selectmode => 'extended',
            -selecttype=>'row',
            -drawmode => 'slow',
            -scrollbars=>'e',
            -ipadx=>$MainTableIpadx,
            -padx=>$MainTablePadx,
            -pady=>12,
            -highlightthickness=>0
    )->pack(-side=>'right', -expand => '1', -fill => 'both');

    $MainTable->tagConfigure ("title", -bg => "$BackgroundTableHeader"
+);
    $MainTable->tagConfigure ('leftjustify', -anchor=>'w');
    $MainTable->tagConfigure ('WhiteRow', -bg => 'white');
    $MainTable->tagConfigure ('ColoredRow', -bg => $BackgroundTableRow
+);

    $MainTable->colWidth(0=> -100, 1=> -200, 2=> -200);
    $arrayVar->{"0,0"} = "Id";
    $arrayVar->{"0,1"} = "Header 1";
    $arrayVar->{"0,2"} = "Header 2";
    $MainTable->configure(-font =>$GuiFontData);
    
    return $MainTable;
}


sub createTableRows{
    my ($MainTable, $NumberRows) = @_;
    $MainTable->configure (-state=>'normal');
    print "Creating rows in table (rows: $NumberRows)... ";
    $MainTable->insertRows(1, $NumberRows);
    $MainTable->configure (-state=>'disabled');
    print "Done!\n";
}

sub printData{
    my ($MainTable, $NumberRows) = @_;
    my $IndexRow=1;
    #looping x times to simulate data, normally data is of different l
+enghts.
    foreach (1..$NumberRows) {
        $arrayVar->{"$IndexRow,0"} = $IndexRow;
        foreach (1..2) {
            $arrayVar->{"$IndexRow,$_"} = "This is my text to be inser
+ted This is my text to be inserted";
        }
        setHeight($MainTable, $IndexRow);
        formattingTableRow($MainTable, $IndexRow);
        $IndexRow++;
    }
    $MainTable->tagRow('leftjustify',1..$NumberRows);    
}

sub formattingTableRow{
    my ($MainTable, $IndexRow)=@_;
    my $is_even = $IndexRow % 2 == 0;
    foreach (0..2){
        if ($is_even == 0) {
            $MainTable->tagCell('WhiteRow',"$IndexRow,$_");
        }
        else {
            $MainTable->tagCell('ColoredRow',"$IndexRow,$_");
        }
    }
}

sub setHeight {
    my ($MainTable, $IndexRow) = @_; 
    foreach my $cell (0..2) {
        $MainTable->activate("$IndexRow,$cell");
        my $text = $MainTable->get('active');
        my $font =     $MainTable->Font ();
        my $widthdata =   $MainTable->fontMeasure ($font, $text);
        my $widthcell = -(($MainTable->colWidth($cell))+($MainTableIpa
+dx*2)+($MainTablePadx*2)+22);
        my $reqheight = int($widthdata / $widthcell) + 1;
        my $currheight = $MainTable->rowHeight($IndexRow);
        $MainTable->rowHeight($IndexRow, $reqheight) if ( ($cell == 0)
+ or ($reqheight > $currheight));
    }
}
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